{"id":1595,"date":"2008-10-23T17:12:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T00:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:41:39","slug":"opera-mini-bookmarklets-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/1595\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Mini Bookmarklets Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Highlight Links bookmarklet in action\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/highlightlinks.jpg\" alt=\"Highlight Links bookmarklet in action\" width=\"216\" height=\"274\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bookmarklet\">Bookmarklets<\/a> are a great labor saver when browsing the web, both on a PC and with a mobile.&nbsp; They are little snippets of JavaScript. With a bookmarklet stored in a browser toolbar button&nbsp; or an Opera Mini Speed Dial, a single click can do all sorts of useful things like adding the current page&#8217;s feed to an RSS Reader, posting its URL to social bookmarking services or translating the page to a different language<\/p>\n<p>A while ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/255\">wrote about using bookmarklets in Opera Mini<\/a>. That page and <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/o.yeswap.com\">o.yeswap.com,<\/a> the page with the bookmarks themselves and some simple instructions, get quite a bit of traffic and&nbsp; are frequently linked to from the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/community\/forums\/forum.dml?id=111\">Opera Mini forum at my.opera.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently there have been posts at my.opera with requests for more bookmarklets.&nbsp; Someone wanted a bookmarklet for adding the current page&#8217;s feed to Google reader and there was a request for a bookmarket to check a page&#8217;s crowd sourced reputation using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywot.com\/\">Web of Trust<\/a> website.&nbsp; It seemed like a good time to for an update.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added the following bookmarklets to o.yeswap.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Add to Google Reader<\/strong> &#8211; Loads the current site&#8217;s feed to Google reader. Click the &#8220;<em>Subscribe<\/em>&#8221; link in reader to add it to your reading list. From <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/subscribe-to-feeds-in-google-reader.html\">Google Operating System<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web Of Trust<\/strong> &#8211; Check current site&#8217;s reputation on Web Of Trust (WOT). From <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/community\/forums\/topic.dml?id=253999&amp;t=1224801522&amp;page=1#comment2768526\">selurus at My Opera<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Page Rank<\/strong> &#8211; Display the current page&#8217;s Google Page Rank. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdreams.org\/tips-tricks\/how-to-view-google-page-rank-of-a-web-page-in-google-chrome-browser\/286-20080907\">Techdreams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlight Links<\/strong>&#8211; Highlight all links with a yellow background.&nbsp; This is great with Bloglines Mobile which displays links in the same black color as regular text (see image). From the <a href=\"http:\/\/operawiki.info\/BookMarklets\">Opera Browser Wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bloglines Citations<\/strong> &#8211; Read what bloggers have written about the current page using Bloglines&#8217; index. Adapted from the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2006\/03\/20.html#a1409\">Infoworld Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web-Sniffer<\/strong> &#8211; View current page&#8217;s HTTP request and response headers and source code using <a href=\"http:\/\/web-sniffer.net\">Web-Sniffer.net<\/a>. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/operawiki.info\/BookMarklets\">Opera Browser Wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To add any of these to Opera Mini.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/o.yeswap.com\">o.yeswap.com<\/a> with OM.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the bookmarklet you want to add, the page will reload with the bookmarklet appended to the URL<\/li>\n<li>Press #, then 7 to add a bookmark.<\/li>\n<li>Edit the bookmark URL by removing&nbsp; &#8220;http:\/\/o.yeswap.com\/?&#8221; from the beginning.&nbsp; The bookmarklet URL should start with javascript. Here&#8217;s an example using the Blogline&#8217;s Citations bookmarklet:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 50px;\"><em>Change<\/em>:<br \/>\n<code>http:\/\/o.yeswap.com\/?javascript:location='http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/citations?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)<\/code><br \/>\n<em>To<\/em><strong>:<\/strong><br \/>\n<code>javascript:location='http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/citations?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)<\/code><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Edit the bookmark&#8217;s title (&#8220;BookMarklet&#8221;) to something descriptive and optionally assign a Speed Dial key.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These bookmarklets work in Opera Mobile 8.65 too &#8211; if you turn off the option to open bookmarks in a new window.&nbsp; Of course Opera Mobile doesn&#8217;t have Speed Dial or a hot key for adding a bookmark so things aren&#8217;t quite as convenient.&nbsp;&nbsp; Readers have reported success using bookmarklets&nbsp; with recent versions of Mobile Internet Explorer and Palm Blazer.&nbsp; Please leave a comment if you get bookmarklets working an any other mobile browser.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/255\">Bookmarklets for Opera Mini<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/261\">Mini Bookmarklets &#8211; Not Broken<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmarklets are a great labor saver when browsing the web, both on a PC and with a mobile.&nbsp; They are little snippets of JavaScript. With a bookmarklet stored in a browser toolbar button&nbsp; or an Opera Mini Speed Dial, a single click can do all sorts of useful things like adding the current page&#8217;s feed to an RSS Reader, posting its URL to social bookmarking services or translating the page to a different language A while ago I wrote about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/1595\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[642,402,1428,1448,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22120,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/22120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}