Bookmarklets are Javascript code that can be saved as bookmarks in your web browser. They enhance your browsing experience by giving you instant access to useful functionality. I was trying out various bookmarklets to see what are the useful ones I can have on my Windows Phone and came across a few that you guys might enjoy. I started off by looking for a find on this page bookmarklet like the one I have seen on the iPhone a while ago and since Mango has removed this handy feature from IE, I though it will be awesome to use this script but unfortunately that snippet of code does not work on Windows Phone, it seems to work on IE ( on the PC ). Similarly all the Bookmarklets that brings up a popup window to get the user input fails to run on Mobile IE, so I am guessing they have some setting which does not allow javascript popups on mobile IE. After a bit of looking around I came across 2 bookmarklets that might be useful to have and which works on Mobile IE.
Update 21/10/2011: One of our reader ‘ bob ‘ pointed out 2 new ones that are found on xda-dev that allows users to Fwd and Find on Page ( by byobge and GoodDayToDie )
Forward and Find on Page
How to install these bookmarklets jump to 1:50 in the video below
Translate and Mobile view
- A script that allows users to bring up Google Translate on a webpage and translate it to any of the available languages
- the other one cuts down the extra content of a webpage and presents a mobile friendly version of the article ( can be handy on pages with a lot of flash and media content )
- Allows users to go forward via the browser
- Find on Page allows you to search for a term and it return the number of times the word is present in the document and it will highlight each of those
If you come across any other useful Bookmarklets for Windows Phone, plz do drop us a comment with more info on it and I will update the post with it.
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