Ever been to an annoying web page? Ok, dumb question. Have you ever wanted to send some useful feedback to whoever created an annoying web page?
Forget hunting around for a feedback form or an email address. Webservers log all page requests, so why not send your message there? Even better, make it a 404 (page not found) error, and it will clearly show up in a webserver usage report. Hell, it might even get read.
You could start typing messages into the location bar of your web-browser, but that seems a bit crude. kvetch is easier.
How it works
Once you get to the 404 error page, your feedback has been sent. Take a deep breath. Now, doesn't that feel better? (Reload the 404 several times if you're still tense.) Click your browser's Back button and keep fighting the good fight.
How to kvetch
You just need a bookmark with some javascript. Drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar, or right-click and select: "Add Link to Favorites..." or "Bookmark this link..."
If you would rather cut-and-paste the code into a bookmark, here it is. (You might have to remove the line breaks.)
javascript:x=document.location+'';i=x.lastIndexOf('/');n=x.slice(0,i);
c=prompt('kvetch\nWhat do you think of this page?\n'+x+'\n','');
d=c.replace(/\s/g,'_');document.location=n+'/kvetch/'+encodeURI(d);
Happy kvetching!
- Jason [ jmoore at xinsight.ca ]
The url of this page is: http://kvetch.xinsight.ca/
Credits
Thanks to del.icio.us for turning me on to bookmarklets.