Talk:Bookmark (digital)

Notes for article development
--Lexein 08:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC) (fixed --Lexein)
 * violawww, cello, and gopher browsers had bookmarks before mosaic.
 * Pre-internet bookmarks
 * in-document bookmarks in crisp and other editors, see google groups search

Here are some other definition:

The process of saving a Web URL in your Web browser. Allows the user to return to a particular site or entry by making a record of it.

A method of storing links to individual web pages or web locations on your computer. Bookmark is the term used by Netscape; Favorites is the Internet Explorer term.

A record kept by web browers of selected web sites. The user can return directly to a particular site by accessing their bookmark file.

A routine that allows you to save a reference to a site or page that you have already visited. At a later point in time, you can use a bookmark to return to that page. It commonly refers to a feature of Netscape Navigator (a web browser) that allows you to collect and organize bookmarks of your favorite web sites.

Using a World Wide Web browser, a bookmark is a saved link to a Web page that has been added to a list of saved links. When you are looking at a particular Web site or home page and want to be able to quickly get back to it later, you can create a bookmark for it. You can think of your browser as a book full of (millions of ) Web pages and a few well-placed bookmarks that you have chosen. The list that contains your bookmarks is the "bookmark list" (and sometimes it is called a "hotlist"). ...

A hyperlink that is saved in the bookmark list, a file in your browser. You can use bookmarks to keep track of favorite or important sites and to return there whenever you are on the World Wide Web.

Creation of a link to a website already visited, so that the user can return to that website directly, without using a search engine or directory.

The feature of a Web Browser that lets you save the address (URL) of a web page so you can go back to the page easily at a later time.

Bookmark are equivalent to Favorites (Internet Explorer aka IE). Bookmarks server the purpose of stamping a certain web page that you find intriguing and want to save the website URL address.

The way to save a Web page location that is frequently visited for future reference. You can save a Web page as a bookmark, also known as Favorites. This allows you to choose a link from a drop down menu and avoids the need to retype or memorize the Web page address in order to access it again. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.171.203 (talk • contribs) 2007-04-20T14:58:55


 * Where did these come from? Not too useful if not cited from somewhere.  Also, a bookmark is primarily a noun, though it can be used as a verb.  The article can certainly be expanded:
 * Many people don't even use them - bookmark lists grow unwieldy, and are too computer/browser-specific
 * Sessions: a list of all open windows or tabs, saved as a folder of bookmarks. Bookmark-all-windows feature in Firefox/Netscape, n/a in Opera or IE(?) --Lexein 20:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposed
The result was merge partially and place a redirect. -- B. Wolterding 11:43, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Since Webmarks seems to duplicate parts of the information here, I am proposing to merge it into htis article. In fact, if you agree, just go ahead. Proposed as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 11:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I oppose merging: there's no new information and no sources cited. I advocate redirecting Webmarks here. --Lexein 18:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support webmarks are of a different nature (being "hosted bookmarks"). I suggest a merger - they are not a major term so a single sentence with a "fact" tag would do the job.Garrie 01:51, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I merged half a sentence and placed a redirect, hoping to be in consensus with all voters. --B. Wolterding 09:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Cool --Lexein 20:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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 * rationale added --Lexein 20:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I added the rationale, and some ass deleted the image anyways. That's f'd up.  --Lexein 06:48, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

pdf bookmarks
What about pdf bookmarks? They are nowhere mentioned in the article

213.224.164.205 21:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

If you mean the bookmarks inside a pdf file that link to pages within that file, just Google "pdf bookmark". I just did and got a bunch of links to web pages on how to create them.

Hccrle (talk) 09:58, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Bookmark Name / Bookmark Title
Where do browsers get the text to list for each bookmark in the bookmark menu? This is the type of basic information we need to include. I know part of the answer: from the element in the section of the HTML file — the same place it gets the text to display in the browser's title bar. If it is a file type other than HTML or XHTML, it uses the file's basename (including the extension).

What I don't know is a) Is this the only place a browser can get the bookmark name? That is, is it possible to specify different text for the bookmark name than for the title bar? (Yes, I know the user can do this, but is there any way the web page can specify a separate bookmark title as the default for that page?) If you're wondering why anyone would want to do this, it's because a title bar fits a lot more text than a bookmark menu entry. b) Is there a standard for specifying a bookmark name in XML files other than XHTML? Bostoner (talk) 00:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

As far as I can tell from the HTML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4), there is no other official way of providing a title for bookmarks in an HTML document. It is possible to provide all kinds of descriptive info in META tags, which are not standardized except in profile files that can be referenced from the HEAD tag. Whether any web servers and/or browsers use meta data for that purpose, I do not know. As for XML (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/), this does not even have anything like the TITLE element of HTML as far as I can discern. Hccrle (talk) 10:56, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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Requested move 15 May 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Page not moved. There was no support for retitling. (closed by non-admin page mover) --  Dane talk  05:41, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Bookmark (World Wide Web) → Bookmark (Internet) – World Wide Web seems to me quite a dated term. "Internet" is more concise, recognisable and natural. Teratix (talk) 13:11, 15 May 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Brad  v  13:23, 24 May 2018 (UTC) Note: I have changed "internet" to "Internet" since people seem to prefer the upper-case version.  Tera TIX  00:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, not only dated but the inventor of the naming procedures, if I recall correctly, is sorry that he added the WWW because of the worldwide-accumulated manhours (I guess it's called "humanhours" or something else now) used every day by people typing the letters. Anyway, good nomination, and surprised it hasn't been changed before. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment - shouldn't "Internet" be capitalized in the suggested title? I mean, we use capitals when talking about it on articles like the "Internet" page... Paintspot Infez (talk) 16:48, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Upper-case per its page and as a proper noun. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:47, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes it should be Internet. Andrewa (talk) 03:08, 24 May 2018 (UTC)


 * prefer Bookmark (computing) since this is a property, not of the Internet, but of the program used to browse it. It also allows a bit of coverage to be added about other contexts (such as Word docs) without necessitating a wholly separate article. -- Netoholic @ 20:33, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Good point, computing seems like a better, broader term. Teratix (talk) 23:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Bookmark (computing) is where this article started. It was then moved to Internet bookmark, Bookmark (web) and finally to the current title. Station1 (talk) 00:05, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Bookmark (web) seems to be the most apt. in this case, probably should've stayed the same. Gotitbro (talk) 02:17, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose – the article seems to be specifically about www bookmarks. Dicklyon (talk) 03:20, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Currently, yes, due to the name. But I believe it can be expanded if we go the (computing) route. -- Netoholic @ 03:22, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * That would be a quite different topic. Why not go ahead and write that article, and then see whether a merge makes sense or not? Dicklyon (talk) 18:42, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose. As Dicklyon says, this is putting the cart before the horse. Support the suggestion of writing the new article, and then discussing a merge... but I think the merge will turn out not to be a good idea anyway. This is a perfectly good article on a good if historic topic. Andrewa (talk) 03:08, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Using "internet" is simply wrong.  Lower-case "internet" means "an/any internetwork", i.e. a WAN.  The Internet is capitalized; there is only one of it, the global network of networks.  Many newspapers get this wrong, because they are staffed by journalists not techies.  WP knows better.  I could get behind "Bookmark (Web)" (the Web is also a proper noun in this sense, whether you give the full World Wide Web name or not) for concision, or "Bookmark (computing)" if the scope is going to expand, which it probably should: at this point, you can use exactly the same applications to bookmark stuff on your hard drive, or a network drive, or whatever, not just websites.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:01, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment:Good point about the capitalisation. This is perhaps borderline as to whether it's style or usage, but on balance the "i" should be capitalised. Andrewa (talk) 15:34, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with upper- or lower-case.  Tera TIX  00:51, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


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Article title
The article’s title doesn’t accurately or completely represent the article’s subject matter. I’m proposing we move it to Bookmark (digital), which is an article title that better represents what’s described here. Thoughts? — LLarson   (said &amp; done) 00:12, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅¹ — LLarson   (said &amp; done) 14:48, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Cloud based bookmarking
Social bookmarking is not necessarily the same as many of the cloud based bookmarking sites that have sprung up to allow users to share one database of bookmarks with multiple devices (rather than users). I feel we need a section for this topic, especially with the demise of "Google Bookmarks" and del.icio.us. Also need a "list of cloud based bookmarking sites" for sites such as Raindrop.io --Lbecque (talk) 02:57, 22 July 2021 (UTC)