Make my site the home page

I have tried a couple of scripts to add a link a user can click to make
my site their browser's home page. For example:

<a href="#"
onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';this.setHomePage('http://www.mysite.co.uk');">Make
my site your home page</a>

They don't work, in IE or Firefox, even the demo links on the sites
containing the scripts.

Am I correct in thinking that today's security conscious browsers won't
let the home page be set from a script any more (in which case why do
sites still advertise these scripts), or is there a way to do this that
works?
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Julian

Julian wrote

> I have tried a couple of scripts to add a link a user can click to
> make my site their browser's home page. For example:
>
> <a href="#"
> onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';this.setHomePage
(
> 'http://www.mysite.co.uk');">Make my site your home page</a>
>
> They don't work, in IE or Firefox, even the demo links on the sites
> containing the scripts.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that today's security conscious browsers
> won't let the home page be set from a script any more (in which case
> why do sites still advertise these scripts), or is there a way to do
> this that works?

Save yourself the trouble. The user can easily make your site their
homepage by themself.

Although one has to wonder if they would want a site for a homepage
where the webmaster presumes to know what's best for them.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Julian wrote:
> I have tried a couple of scripts to add a link a user can click to make
> my site their browser's home page. For example:
>
> <a href="#"
> onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';this.setHomePage('http://www.mysite.co.uk');">Make
> my site your home page</a>
>
> They don't work, in IE or Firefox, even the demo links on the sites
> containing the scripts.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that today's security conscious browsers won't
> let the home page be set from a script any more (in which case why do
> sites still advertise these scripts), or is there a way to do this that
> works?

It wont work. Windows XP SP2 blocks scripts from doing this in IE, and
it wont work at all in FireFox whatever you do.

Julian <julian@address.invalid> wrote in news:d71hap$jv9$1
@domitilla.aioe.org:

> I have tried a couple of scripts to add a link a user can click to make
> my site their browser's home page. For example:

It was another of those good ideas which got abused so now no one gets to
use it. In my opinion, most pages that deserve to be a home page never used
it anyway. They let the users do it.

Gandalf Parker

I use
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function addbookmark()
{
bookmarkurl=http://www.yoursite.com
bookmarktitle="Title of Bookmark"
if (document.all)
window.external.AddFavorite(bookmarkurl,bookmarkti tle)
}
</script>

and then put a link up

<a href="javascript:addbookmark()" Title="Click Here to add this site to
your bookmarks">Bookmark Us Now</A>



"Julian" <julian@address.invalid> wrote in message
news:d71hap$jv9$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
> I have tried a couple of scripts to add a link a user can click to make
> my site their browser's home page. For example:
>
> <a href="#"
>
onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';this.setHomePage('http
://www.mysite.co.uk');">Make
> my site your home page</a>
>
> They don't work, in IE or Firefox, even the demo links on the sites
> containing the scripts.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that today's security conscious browsers won't
> let the home page be set from a script any more (in which case why do
> sites still advertise these scripts), or is there a way to do this that
> works?
> --
> Julian

Doc wrote:
> I use
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> function addbookmark()
> {
> bookmarkurl=http://www.yoursite.com
> bookmarktitle="Title of Bookmark"
> if (document.all)
> window.external.AddFavorite(bookmarkurl,bookmarkti tle)
> }
> </script>
>
> and then put a link up
>
> <a href="javascript:addbookmark()" Title="Click Here to add this site to
> your bookmarks">Bookmark Us Now</A>
>

Thanks for the replies, and the bookmark script. I'll give that a try.

--
Julian

Julian wrote

> Thanks for the replies, and the bookmark script. I'll give that a try.

Thanks for ignoring the replies.

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Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com