BlueDot Safari Hacks

BlueDot is a new social search network, it is fun and useful, check it out at Blue.us.

A quick hack to dot in Safari is to save the stylesheet (http://www.blue.us/css/Authoring.css) to your computer and store it in your custom css for Safari (Preferences > Advanced >Style Sheet).

If you don't want to do it this way, you can make a bookmark like this to open up the Dot from Anywhere form at http://www.blue.us/DotFromAnywhere.aspx. To do this go to Bookmarks > Manage All Bookmarks. Select Bookmarks Bar and then make a new bookmark. Add the javascript code below as the url of the bookmark.

javascript:
{ 
 var dotForm = document.getElementById("retroDotForm"); 
 if (dotForm) 
 { 
  dotForm.style.display = "block"; 
 } 
}

They don't work together though. Once you add the BlueDot stylesheet to you custom stylesheet it will cause the Dot from Anywhere form to not display properly, so you have to choose your hack carefully.

The hack to reveal the Dot anywhere is slightly better in that you won't be left in the dust with changes to the css used by the website. It might be useful to update your local css file any major updates to the site or when you notice something going wrong.

Hopefully a better solution will be found.