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December 12, 2006 by Justin
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If you use NetNewsWire, you may be accustomed to the keystroke ⇧⌘P to send a link to Pukka. Alert reader and Pukka user Ben Jackson sent me an AppleScript which can replicate this behavior in Safari using a bit of Quicksilver magic.

I've mentioned Quicksilver before. It's a handy utility that lets you operate many functions on your Mac using the keyboard and shortcuts. Ben's script basically emulates the Pukka bookmarklet functionality (available in Pukka->Install Bookmarklet...). But, unlike using the bookmarklet in Safari, calling the AppleScript from Quicksilver lets you bind a specific key combination.

Ben writes:

I assigned it a trigger in Quicksilver bound to ⇧⌘P to match NetNewsWire's 'post to weblog' shortcut and restricted the scope to Safari.

Thanks for the tip, Ben! Getting beyond Safari's basic bookmark shortcuts is a big help to keeping the workflow moving along quickly.

Update: Ugh, I can't believe I didn't attach the original script. You can get it here. Thanks, Wess!

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Submitted by Wess Daniels (not verified) on December 14, 2006.

So where is this script - let's have at it.

Submitted by Wess Daniels (not verified) on December 14, 2006.

Hah - no problem. Thanks for posting it!

Submitted by Firas (not verified) on February 6, 2007.

Can the same be done for Firefox? If so, how?
Thanks.

Submitted by Justin on February 11, 2007.

@Firas: I don't think that it can, because to my knowledge, Firefox can't be told to "do JavaScript" the way Safari and other WebKit-based browsers can.