Comments on: Social Bookmarking feature added to blog

By: Paul Albaugh

Paul Albaugh — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:43:32 +0000

I used Addthis but after reading Nofollow Monstrosity (http://seolutions.net/blog/nofollow-monstrosity) I started using Social Bookmark Buttons with Nofollow.
Thanks for your post.

By: Bookmark Software

Bookmark Software — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:44:12 +0000

AddTHis is a great tool but you are right….non-js browsers will miss-out. We have just decided to deal with not being able to enable this function with non-js browsers. So we would be interested also for a work-around.

By: fatura ödeme merkezi

fatura ödeme merkezi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:52:10 +0000

From what I can see, AddThis is only usable in browsers that have JavaScript enabled. While obviously most browsers are JS enabled, the key to accessiblity is that a service is accessible to all users (so non-JS options should also be provided).

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:53:38 +0000

@Conor: Thanks for your comment! However as can be seen in this article and also in my a href="http://www.marcozehe.de/2008/07/16/easy-aria-tip-3-aria-invalid-and-role-alert/">latest Easy ARIA tip, I'm actually of the opinion that JavaScript or AJAX are actually able to enhance accessibility rather than prevent it. So I've made the conscious decision to showcase advances in accessibility and break with this rule that is, in my opinion, from the stone ages of web accessibility. Granted, the AddThis widget is not yet a prominent example of this, since it does not have ARIA yet, but I'm in contact with the AddThis people and will hopefully be able to showcase an advancement there soon, too.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:42:43 +0000

Hi Marco,

While it’s nice to have that AddThis dropdown widget on pages, I wish their pop-up window (for JS disabled browsers) didn’t also require JS to be enabled.

It’s looking like we’ll have to develop an inhouse solution to this problem so I’d love to hear your feedback on my comment. Thanks!

By: Val

Val — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:42:38 +0000

Take a look at http://www.entopica.com/, a new social bookmarking website. It is an online system that allows you to easily access, categorize, share and store your bookmarks online
Entopica offers a free registration and it is both quick and easy. Register now and discover a whole new world of social bookmarking

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:18:48 +0000

Hi lachlan,
yeah you’re right, that many buttons was a bit overkill. A friend pointed this out to me as well, and I’ve now trimmed down the list.

By: Lachlan Hunt

Lachlan Hunt — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:26:07 +0000

Seriously, what’s the point? Who exactly do you think will find all those buttons useful?

By: patrick h. lauke

patrick h. lauke — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:43:36 +0000

now here’s something that’s been bugging me recently, particularly with more and more mainstream news and university sites adding these social bookmarking buttons on their pages: if somebody is already using a service like delicious or magnolia, is it fair to assume they’ll already have a bookmarklet or extension/plugin to quickly bookmark the current page? if they’re not using such services, will they not feel that these buttons clutter up the page? are these the equivalent of web badges (“xhtml 1.0 compliant!” for the web 2.0 generation), or are they akin to those “print this page” buttons that simply replicate browser functionality?