Comments on: 17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone

By: KargiDesign

KargiDesign — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:40:10 +0000

To install without safari or iTunes:

Mail the js to yourself. Open mail on your iPhone. Copy all js. Open mobile safari. Type http:// on adress bar and paste js as rest. Will give an error but save it to bookmarks. Edit the bookmark, erase the http:// part. Save.

Enjoy.

By: mg

mg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:07 +0000

If I may say something:

The find in page plugin is – sorry for bing that harsh – crap. The very first thing I did was to open it and leave it blank. After this I did it again 3 times:

The JS highlighted every string ‘null’ on the page (js construction fail.)
Firefox died.
The repsone of js was the unevaluated html of the page.

Great work.

By: chewie

chewie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:57:06 +0000

Hi thank you for this great article. I just got one and this was really helpful for me. Thanks again

By: Krypton

Krypton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:08:30 +0000

I really and I must share this on this blog. I recent bought 2 iphones and started using them after staring at it for 3 weeks trying to figure out how and where to click or tap. Finally, i managed to get it working then I realised that the battery runs out very fast within half a day. I live in my briefcase, therefore this is not good. I stop by the mall, bought the external portable charger that I can put into my bag and brought it home to charge for 2 hrs it says. After charging, I inserted the external charger into my 3GS iphone. Suddenly, pop the sound came. I quickly immediately pull out the charger and there was a very strong burning smell coming from the charger and my iphone. Guys out there, beware when using your hp not necessary only iphone. Never ever buy a fake or non compatible charger. They really can burst. Thank god this is just a “POP” not “BOOM”

By: Unit Kay

Unit Kay — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:40:30 +0000

A web browser called iNetDual is released in AppStore. It has nice features for bookmarklets such as bookmarking the bookmarklets directly, a simple bookmarklet editor, automatic bookmarklets, and a bookmark bar where you can put your favorite links and bookmarklets. It would be very nice if you would download iNetDual and check the features.

To the owner of this site: Please delete this comment if promoting an application is not appropriate.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:26:07 +0000

3.1 Update Seems to have broken consistent copy and paste functionality with bookmarklet input boxes. I have several bookmarklets on my iphone in Safari that pop up a javascript input box allowing me to input data. I used to be able to paste data into the input box when it popped up everytime and then hit ok, and it would run the script to calculate the url based on the data to view the next page. However, since the 3.1 update when I click into the box, the copy and paste function pops up 1 time after a phone reset and then will not pop up anymore to paste data into the input box and I am not sure why. Can anyone else confirm that behavior? The problem seems to manifest itself on the bookmarklets on this page. Just copy something to your iphone clipboard, run a bookmarklet and try to paste. The paste will come up the first time and then click ok and try to run the bookmarklet again or another bookmarklet and you will no longer be able to get the copy or paste options to come up in the javascript input box that pops up.

By: Richard Harris

Richard Harris — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:02:56 +0000

The code block above got a bit mangled in the posting. The code below should work:

javascript:void(l=%27%27);d=document.body;j=0;lrid=null;if(d.lastfind!=null&&d.lastfindrid!=null){l=d.lastfind;lrid=d.lastfindrid;}void(s=prompt(%27Find%20text:%27,l));if(s!=null&&s!=%27%27){if(s==l){j=d.lastfindindex+1;}else{b=d.innerHTML;if(lrid!=null){x=new%20RegExp(%27%3Cspan%20name=%22%27+lrid+%27%22%20id=%22%27+lrid+%27%22%20style=%22color:%20rgb$0,%200,%200$;%20background-color:%20yellow;%20font-weight:%20bold;%22%3E([^%3C]%2A)%3C/span%3E%27,%20%27g%27);b=b.replace(x,%20%27$1%27);}d.lastfind=s;s=%27(%27+s+%27)%27;x=new%20RegExp(s,%27gi%27);rn=Math.floor(Math.random()%2A100);rid=%27z%27+rn;d.lastfindrid=rid;b=b.replace(x,%27%3Cspan%20name=%22%27+rid+%27%22%20id=%22%27+rid+%27%22%20style=%22color:%20rgb(0,%200,%200);%20background-color:%20yellow;%20font-weight:%20bold;%22%3E$1%3C/span%3E%27);void(d.innerHTML=b);alert(%27Found%20%27+document.getElementsByName(rid).length+%27%20matches.%27);}d.lastfindindex=j;window.scrollTo(0,document.getElementsByName(rid)[j%document.getElementsByName(rid).length].offsetTop);}

By: Richard Harris

Richard Harris — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:46:17 +0000

If anyone is interested I–™ve mad an updated version of the bookmarklet. The major change is it effectively supports a find next. When you run the bookmarklet a second time on the same page it pre-populates the last search and if you click find again without updating the search term it will move to the next occurrence in the document. This is handy for long documents where it can be difficult to find other search terms.

There are also some fixes to do with multiple finds. With the old bookmarklet if you did a search for Help and then a search for Helping it wouldn–™t be able to find Helping because of the way it splits up the words when it does the first find. This version also unhighlights old searches when a new search is done.

The block of code for the new bookmarklet is: javascript:void(l=%27%27);d=document.body;j=0;lrid=null;if(d.lastfind!=null&&d.lastfindrid!=null){l=d.lastfind;lrid=d.lastfindrid;}void(s=prompt(%27Find%20text:%27,l));if(s!=null&&s!=%27%27){if(s==l){j=d.lastfindindex+1;}else{b=d.innerHTML;if(lrid!=null){x=new%20RegExp(%27%3Cspan%20name=%22%27+lrid+%27%22%20id=%22%27+lrid+%27%22%20style=%22color:%20rgb$0,%200,%200$;%20background-color:%20yellow;%20font-weight:%20bold;%22%3E([^%3C])%3C/span%3E%27,%20%27g%27);b=b.replace(x,%20%27$1%27);}d.lastfind=s;s=%27(%27+s+%27)%27;x=new%20RegExp(s,%27gi%27);rn=Math.floor(Math.random()100);rid=%27z%27+rn;d.lastfindrid=rid;b=b.replace(x,%27%3Cspan%20name=%22%27+rid+%27%22%20id=%22%27+rid+%27%22%20style=%22color:%20rgb(0,%200,%200);%20background-color:%20yellow;%20font-weight:%20bold;%22%3E$1%3C/span%3E%27);void(d.innerHTML=b);alert(%27Found%20%27+document.getElementsByName(rid).length+%27%20matches.%27);}d.lastfindindex=j;window.scrollTo(0,document.getElementsByName(rid)[j%document.getElementsByName(rid).length].offsetTop);}

By: HoorohoRnSoli

HoorohoRnSoli — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:22:20 +0000

By: Team NES 1

Team NES 1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:25:08 +0000

Thanks for making my iPod experience so much easier. I really appreciate your hard work in creating/finding these awesome bookmarklets.