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Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points
Posted by Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

Event listener for adding a bookmark

Hi all :)

I am trying to add a robust function to a website that will detect when a bookmark is added. The areas I will need to cover are:

1- combined KeyPress of CTRL + D

2- window.external. add to favourites listner for each type of browser that supports this, or a variant of.

3 - A button with an onclick event that adds to bookmarks with an error message fall back telling the user to do it manually (still tracking the click as a bookmark added)

Anyone have an idea on how to go about this or if there are any other options worth exploring?

There will be some serious differences on the mobile platforms, I would imagine.

I haven't started coding this yet. I don't want to waste my own time if this may not even be possible. If you do have any answers, please could you reference your sources to back up whether this is or is not possible. Doing so may lead to another avenue to solve this problem :)

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Tyler Haas
Tyler Haas
20,623 Points
Tyler Haas
Tyler Haas
20,623 Points

Was able to find this on mdn:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/Creating_event_targets

Hope that helps!