The bookmarklet
A bookmark that takes the page you're reading — or just the passage you selected — and opens it in the Elenchus analyzer, already filled in.
Install it
Drag this button to your bookmarks bar:
Press ⌘⇧B (Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows) if the bookmarks bar is hidden. Drag it — do not copy and paste the link: Chrome silently strips the "javascript:" prefix from a pasted bookmark, and the result does nothing at all.
Use it
- Optional: select the passage you want examined. Nothing selected means the page’s main text is used.
- Click the bookmark. The analyzer opens in a new tab with the text already in the box.
- Solve the challenge and press Analyze. Nothing is sent anywhere until you do.
Where it does not work
Tested in Chrome. What was measured, and what was not:
- Browser pages such as chrome://settings, and the new-tab page: the bookmark does nothing there. Browsers do not let a bookmarklet run on their own screens.
- If pop-ups are blocked for the site you are on, the analyzer tab never opens. Allow pop-ups for that site, or use the paste box.
- A page with no real prose — a video page, a photo gallery, an app — gives the analyzer nothing to work with. Select the text you mean, or paste it.
- Firefox and Safari have not been tested. The paste box works in every browser.
It does run on sites with a strict Content-Security-Policy, github.com included — that was tested, because the opposite was expected.
The paste box works everywhere
Any text, any browser, any device: open the analyzer and paste it in.
What it sends
The bookmarklet reads the page in your browser and hands the text to the analyzer tab directly — it does not go through a server on the way. Nothing is sent for analysis until you press the Analyze button. What happens after that is described in the privacy policy.