Bookmark (World Wide Web)

The Internet is understood as a bookmark a link, which is managed by a computer program for faster access to certain most frequently visited sites on the Internet in a bookmark collection.

These programs are usually web browser. There are used different names, mostly bookmarks, Internet Explorer, they are called Favorites. In English-language programs, there is often bookmarks the English equivalent for the first term.

Bookmarks help a page once found also recover without search engine. Experienced Internet users collect bookmarks and come so often to thousands of entries. In companies include bookmarks to link management.

Many web browsers, including Firefox and Lynx, manage your bookmarks in an HTML file. Opera uses a specially formatted text file. In favorites of Internet Explorer a separate file is stored in sub-folders in the file system per entry.

Often appears in the bookmarks next to the title of the page and its favicon to find them faster. Furthermore, there is the possibility to store JavaScript statements as a bookmark via so-called bookmarklet.

Live Bookmarks ( English: Live Bookmarks ) are a specialty of the Firefox web browser and the browser Safari. With their help, RSS feeds can be stored as a bookmark. The headlines are doing reloaded with every Browser Start and updates the affected bookmarks automatically.

Social Bookmarks are called bookmarks that are publicly administered. In addition to the website, the bookmarks are often (usually as RSS - Feed ) published as a subscription- list.

XBEL denote an XML standard, with which you can transfer bookmarks.