June 13, 2004, 11:02 PM ET
Unsuckifying All Music Guide links
In my eternal quest to explore and collect obscure 1960s pop/rock, no site has helped me more than All Music Guide -- a tremendous database that seems to be an attempt to catalog all recorded music. It just might be my favorite non-Google-nor-Amazon Web site.
The annoying thing about it, though, is it uses JavaScript almost exclusively for its internal links. AMG links don't point to a distinct URL; rather, each link executes custom JavaScript code -- such as <a href="javascript:z('Awgde4j370wat')"> -- that does the actual page redirection. Not only does that make the site useless for people with JavaScript turned off, but it's also an annoyance for folks like me who like to browse by middle-clicking links to open them in background tabs.
Here, then, is a bookmarklet that converts each JavaScript URL on any All Music Guide page into a normal URL, suitable for middle-clicking:
Unsuckify All Music Guide links
I've tested it in Mozilla Firefox 0.8.
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