The post I wrote two years ago about using bookmarklets in Opera Mini is one of the most popular and most linked to pages on this site. And why not, bookmarklets - which are snippets of JavaScript stored in a browser bookmark - are extremely useful and powerful. They work wonders to make your mobile surfing faster and easier. With two key presses you can subscribe to a feed in your favorite RSS reader, save a link to the current page on over a dozen bookmarking services , translate the current page to a different language, display the current page's HTTP headers or Google Page rank and much more.
Opera Mini supports bookmarklets but setting them up can be difficult, particularly on phones that don't offer copy and paste. But there is an easy way. Simply create a web page containing a link with the bookmarklet's JavaScript in the URL's query string. For example,
<a href="o.yeswap.com/?javascript:location.href=%27http://www.bloglines.com/sub/%27+location.href ">Add to Bloglines</a>
Then visit your page with Opera Mini, click the link, bookmark the page and modify the bookmark to remove the "o.yeswap.com/?" before the JavaScript.
To save you the trouble of creating a web page and hosting it on a server somewhere, I've created o.yeswap.com. It started out with just a half a dozen bookmarklets a couple of years ago but has grown quite a bit thanks to new bookmarklets submitted by readers. I just added four more from "Lucian"
With these additions o.yeswap.com now hosts 30 bookmarklets. With so many, I decided it was time to organize the page a bit. I've grouped the bookmarklets into four categories; Bookmarking, RSS, Page Info, and Tools and added top and bottom menus with links to each category.
I've also updated the bookmarklets page with a bit of PHP that sets the page title to the name of the bookmarklet that you clicked. This means that when you save them in Opera Mini, the bookmark title will be pre-populated with a descriptive name instead of just "Bookmarklet". This should eliminate the need to edit the title.
Here's how to add bookmarklets to Opera Mini.
To use a bookmarklet:
I've really only tested these bookmarklets in Opera Mini 4.2, readers tell me that they also work in recent versions of Mobile Internet Explorer, Palm Blazer and Opera Mobile. With Opera Mobile bookmarklets only work if you turn off the option to open bookmarks in a new window.
Here's a complete list of the 30 bookmarklets on o.yeswap.com
Bookmarking
Post to Del.icio.us Add the current page to del.icio.us using the standard Del.icio.us Add Bookmark form. It's not a mobile page but works reasonably well in Opera Mini
Quick del.icio.us Post Post the current page to del.icio.us with no tags but no form to fill out either.
Add to Evernote Add the current page to Evernote
Post to Ma.gnolia.com Add
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posted by Dennis Bournique
February 11, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
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