Cool JavaScript code snippet
If you have a set of websites that you like to check on a regular basis, this little snippet of JavaScript can automate opening the websites for you.
You build an array of URLs in the format:
bq. ,"http://www.your-url.com"
and insert them into the code. You then save the code as something.html and put a shortcut to that file on your desktop. When you doubleclick it, it will open each of the URLs in a seperate window or copy of your browser.
To see the code, click on the
Continue reading "Cool JavaScript snippet" link below.
PLEASE NOTE: In order for this to display and not be treated as regular HTML code, I replaced all of the angle-open and angle-closed characters (the ones located above the , and the . on your keyboards) with the square-bracket-open and closed characters (these [ ] ). To make the code work properly, you will need to change them back again...
[html]
[head]
[script language="JavaScript"]
[!--
urls = new Array("http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/"
,"http://www.brownsnout.com/"
add more links here...
)
function news() {
for (i = 0; i [ urls.length; i++) {
if ((i + 1) == urls.length) {
location.href = urls[i];
}
else {
window.open(urls[i]);
}
}
}
// --]
[/script]
[/head]
[body onload="news()"][/body]
[/html]
Posted by DaveH at March 5, 2004 4:32 PM