Now it turns out that I somehow skipped this piece of code that looks pretty similar to code generated by converter, but before that discovery, I thought: I’m a developer, so there is only one reasonable solution to my problem:

Based on the Javascript Crunchinator Demo, you can use this to quickly create a bookmarklet from some javascript code.

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This tool creates bookmarklets from JavaScript code.

My browser of choice is Chrome, so I wanted to integrate Quix with it. Unfortunately, the recommended installation method requires an extension for a keyboard shortcut to work. This got me thinking... why not utilize the extensible address bar that is already built into Chrome?

bookmarklets to easily create an email from the browser with the current page title, url and any selected text in the new email

I made a neat mailto bookmarklet that uses the page title as the Subject, and puts the URL and any selected text into the Body. It was tricky because Javascript wanted to interpert the %0D%0A (crlf) too early, so I had to escape the %’s as %25, i.e. %0D%0A -> %250D%250A -> %22%250D%250A%22 (when surrounded by double quotes).