When CanLII changed the way it offers you search choices, it also changed the messages your query sends to its search engine, with the result that it broke the CanLII search bookmarklets that I’d constructed some time ago. (Thanks to Alisa Posesorski, VP at Irwin Law, for bringing this to my attention.) Well, as someone famous once wrote in rather differenct circumstances,
- Géronte. Il n’y a qu’ seule chose qui m’a choqué; c’est l’endroit du foie et du cœur. Il me semble que vous les placez autrement qu’ils ne sont; que le cœur est du côte gauche, et le foie du côte droit.
Sganarelle. Oui; cela étoit autrefois ainsi; mais nous avons changé tout cela, et nous faisons maintenant la médecine d’une méthode toute nouvelle.
Géronte. C’est ce que je ne savois pas, et je vous demande pardon de mon ignorance.”
“Nous avons changé tout çela.
Herewith, then, the new bookmarklets, a full set for Firefox users and another for those using IE. As before, you claim the ones you want as bookmarks, to be located ideally on your personal bookmark bar; if you highlight a search term in your browser and click the bookmarklet, you should find yourself inside CanLII looking at the results of the search for that term; alternatively, if you click a bookmarklet with no term selected, a popup window will open inviting you to enter a search term.
| Firefox | IE | ||
| Search CanLII (all) [1] | Search CanLII (All) [2] | ||
| Search CanLII (Courts) [1] | Search CanLII (Courts) [2] | ||
| Search CanLII (Legislation) [1] | Search CanLII (Legislation) [2] | ||
| Search CanLII (Name/Citation) [1] | Search CanLII (Name/Citation) [2] |
I have also lodged these on an updated Resources [3] page.
I’ve tested them all and believe they work. (My heart’s in the right place, as Géronte might say.) But if I’m wrong in any respect, please do let me know and I’ll do what I can to fix them up.