Peter Coles (mrcoles) is a web developer who writes about small browser projects like Markdown.css, bookmarklets, and HTML5 experiments.
HN links it for small web tools, including a bookmarklet creator, Markdown.css and Dragondrop, and a commenter adds cookie details on IE.
I think the best part is how short and elegant it is.
I assume a lot of people won’t realize you can bookmark that URL since it looks so weird. Also, once you’re bookmarking, you can cheat and put more logic into the page. I made a slightly improved one with a dark background and larger font (hard to post the link on HN, so on a separate page):
http://mrcoles.com/one-line-browser-notepad-bookmark/
Turn each one of these to a browser bookmarklet using a template like
https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura/blob/master/src/bookmarklet.js
with
https://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/
edit: found this to be useful for testing https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/
Hey Simon,
Hmmm, you're right about the IE issues (http://mrcoles.com/blog/cookies-max-age-vs-expires/). I haven't looked into how possible/hard expires would be in nginx config, but you could probably hack it in with http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUserIdModule
But how are you going to replace the OG? https://mrcoles.com/dragondrop/
(Ironically doesn’t work on mobile)
Yes, the article actually links to a demo of this technique!
https://mrcoles.com/demo/markdown-css/