is this possible... (re: bookmarks)
 

is it possible to detect when someone bookmarks a page

and is it possible to detect if someone already has a page bookmarked?

*yawn*

what about with cookies? i know i can detect if a user has been to my site before, but i wanna know if they have my site bookmarked. :helpme

Interesting post.. I want the answer to that one too

It's easy to track the stats for the "bookmark this page" link. That's way you can see howmany people press the link but don't know about the actuall bookmark itself though.

server stats help - look at the number of fav.ico downloads

interesting point. does that file get loaded each time someone bookmarks the page, and then each time they visit? or just when a person visits the page via bookmark?

There are special buttons with code for it, but don't know if works with every browser and if it counts if someone press ctrl+d or just add it to their fevorietes by the menu

i wrote a little script to count bookmarkers. Uses mysql to store the counters. If you are intrested, just let me know.

definitely. can u give me some details on what it does? counts current bookmarkers who visit? counts people who bookmark on that particular visit? etc...

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each time someone clicks to bookmark it downloads that file

it will not show you if they return via clicking the bookmark, you can do that part with cookies

hmm ok cool... now we're getting somewhere...

so the number of calls to fav.ico will tell me how many people bookmarked me that day....

and if i set a cookie when that bookmark link is clicked, ill know when a bookmarker comes back... ?

does using the 'favorites > add bookmark' function on the toolbar also call the fav.ico file, or just the js link that we all use?

No and No.

As said, it is possible to track a "bookmark this" link (as it is possible to track all links on your page), but the js for bookmarking used by most links aren't even crossbrowser compatible. Besides, this method will only count the bookmarks bookmarked through your bookmark link, it won't count the bookmarks bookmarked through any other bookmarking methods (ctrl+d, through the favorites menu).

Detecting if someone already has bookmarked a page seems impossible to me, as bookmarks are stored on your system. JS normally isn't able to read your localfiles, so isn't able to see what you've got bookmarked or not.