One of the users of the W3C cheatsheet (of which a new version was released yesterday including HTML5) reminded me of a nifty feature available in a number of browsers, the so called “smart bookmarks”, and how they could be used with the cheatsheet.
A smart bookmark is basically a bookmark where a part of the URL can be replaced by a user entered string; depending on the browser, this smart bookmark can then be invoked with a said string to bring you directly to a specific page (often, a search result).
This technique can be applied to the W3C cheatsheet by creating a bookmark with the address set to http://www.w3.org/2009/cheatsheet/#search,%s; having added such a bookmark and bound it to the “w3” invokation keyword in Firefox, I can now type w3 background-repeat in the browser location bar to get the view on background-repeat in the cheatsheet. Nifty!
