Add to favorites in JavaScript for IE6+, FF and Safari

Question

I tried some "add to favorties" JavaScript scripts.. With IE8, I get an "access denied" (is that even possible to add a bookmark via JS with IE8?) and it just doesn't work with IE6... Anybody has a good script that works on most browsers?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Both IE6 and IE8 will need the users to press CTRL+D to add the website to the favourites.

Edit: Sorry, I run into a brain malfunction and mixed some words out.

Actually, IE8 allows javascript to manage the favourites.

To be more precise, and if you use jquery on your website, here's an example :

    $("a.bookmark").click(function(e) {
            if ($.browser.opera == false) {
                e.preventDefault();
                var url = this.href;  
                var title = this.title;

                if ($.browser.mozilla == true) {
                    window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url, '');
                    return false;
                } else if($.browser.msie == true) {  
                    window.external.AddFavorite( url, title);
                    return false;
                } else {
                    alert('Please use CTRL + D to bookmark this website.');
                }


    }
});

Note: the "a.bookmark" is required to work with opera, since it recognizes .bookmark class in anchor tags and executes the bookmark funcion on click.

It supports IE7 & 8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Opera 9 (at least) .. Safari isn't supported, and IE6 I couldn't test it here, sorry.