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| <h1>BidiChecker Bookmarklet Installation Page</h1> |
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| <p>A "BidiChecker Bookmarklet" is a button you can add to your web browser |
| that will run |
| <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/bidichecker/home">BidiChecker</a> |
| on any web page, displaying any bidi errors in an interactive window. We'd |
| like to thank <a href="http://chris.improbable.org/">developer/blogger |
| Chris Adams</a> for |
| <a href="http://chris.improbable.org/2010/11/4/google-bidichecker-bookmarklet/"> |
| demonstrating the concept</a>. His original source code can be found |
| <a href="https://gist.github.com/662454">here on GitHub</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Below, we offer two bookmarklet links which differ a bit from Chris's |
| implementation. But the basic concept is the same: By dragging a |
| bookmarklet link to your browser's Bookmarks toolbar, you create a button |
| you can click to run BidiChecker on the current page for ad hoc |
| spot-checking. (In Google Chrome, first press Ctrl-Shift-B to show the |
| Bookmarks toolbar; other browsers have similar options.)</p> |
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| <p>BidiChecker does not currently support this use case very well. If no |
| errors are found, pressing the button will have no visible effect. Also, |
| pressing the button twice in succession will not work correctly. We're |
| aware of these issues and are currently working on a more sophisticated |
| bookmarklet implementation.</p> |
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| <li>This bookmarklet assumes that the page being checked has an overall |
| directionality of left-to-right (for example, an English UI): |
| <a href="javascript:(function(){(function(target,msg){var loader=function(){if(arguments.callee._executed)return;arguments.callee._executed=true;bidichecker.runGui(bidichecker.checkPage(false));};var s=document.createElement('script');s.type="text/javascript";s.setAttribute('src',"//bidichecker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lib/bidichecker_packaged.js");if(s.addEventListener){s.addEventListener("load",loader,false);}else if("onreadystatechange" in s){s.onreadystatechange=function(){if(this.readyState=='complete'||this.readyState=='loaded'){loader();}};}else{window.setTimeout(loader(),2500);}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);})();})();"> |
| BidiChecker LTR |
| </a> |
| </li> |
| <li>And this bookmarklet assumes that the page being checked has an |
| overall directionality of right-to-left (for example, a Hebrew or |
| Arabic UI): |
| <a href="javascript:(function(){(function(target,msg){var loader=function(){if(arguments.callee._executed)return;arguments.callee._executed=true;bidichecker.runGui(bidichecker.checkPage(true));};var s=document.createElement('script');s.type="text/javascript";s.setAttribute('src',"//bidichecker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lib/bidichecker_packaged.js");if(s.addEventListener){s.addEventListener("load",loader,false);}else if("onreadystatechange" in s){s.onreadystatechange=function(){if(this.readyState=='complete'||this.readyState=='loaded'){loader();}};}else{window.setTimeout(loader(),2500);}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);})();})();"> |
| BidiChecker RTL |
| </a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>To run BidiChecker, just navigate your browser to the page you want to |
| test, interact with the page to get it into the state you want to test, |
| and click on one of the BidiChecker bookmarklets in your browser's |
| bookmarks toolbar. If bidi errors are found, an in-page dialog box will |
| appear, allowing you to browse through the errors, which should be |
| highlighted within the page.</p> |
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| <h2>Known limitations</h2> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>The bookmarklet does not work on all versions of Internet |
| Explorer.</li> |
| <li>If no errors are found, no visible changes will take place. It will |
| look as if BidiChecker has not even run.</li> |
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