Now here's a clever trick. Inventive Labs Gadgets has designed a Safari bookmarklet that adds "tabs" to your iPhone browsing experience. Just drag their bookmarklet into your Safari bookmarks bar, then sync your iPhone or iPod touch. (Make sure you've selected Info > Web browser > Sync Safari bookmarks in iTunes.)
Once synced, open a web page and then choose Tabulate from your iPhone bookmarks list. A small orange icon appears at the top-left of the screen. Next, tap on any link. The three-button control window shown here appears.
Tap on blue to open the link in the current tab, green to open the link in a new tab (i.e. a new Safari page, in iPhone terms), and orange to add the link to the list of flagged links to open later. The flagged items appear in orange at the top-left of the screen.
So how does it work? Not too badly. It's a little annoying opening the bookmarklet for each page and sometimes the javascript "took" better on some pages than others. That being said, I found it very useful to have around and it's staying in my permanent collection of iPhone javascript bookmarklets. Good job, Inventive Labs guys!
Thanks, Virginia. There really is a javascript clause.
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12-06-2007 @ 4:21PM
Ondra Soukup said...
Reinventing the wheel never felt so good :D
and thanks for the bigger font in the comments field, I can finally see what I type now...when I'm making the first post anyways :P
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12-06-2007 @ 4:34PM
jadam said...
Now, does someone want to code up a bookmarklet that allows copy/paste between fields on websites?
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12-07-2007 @ 7:25PM
Marius said...
Are there any other ways of transferring bookmarks to a jailbroken iPhone? Syncing bookmarks with Safari clutters up my already well organized iPhoneSafariBookmarks.
Any other bookmarklets that's worth of using on the iPhone?
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