Favelets are small snippets of JavaScript embedded in a Bookmark URL that allow Bookmarks in browsers to do various advanced things. Popular Favelets include variants that prompt the user for a phrase and search the web for that phrase, or that finds older versions of the currently viewed page in the WayBack Machine. More Favelets can be found from <http://favelets.com/>.
Favelets depend on support for
javascript:
URLs
in your browser's Bookmarks feature, and each
Favelet may depend on
support for a specific part of the JavaScript specification to work
properly. MSIE
versions 5.0 and later, and Mozilla 1.0 and later — including
browsers using the embedded version of Mozilla, such as
Netscape 7.0 — are known to support most
Favelets.
Most browsers that have support for basic JavaScript and DOM also support basic Favelets, but more advanced Favelets may require more complete DOM1 and DOM2 support. Netscape 4.x is a lost cause in this regard, and with its poor support for standards in general it is probably better to avoid it altogether.