Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility

This is amazing, Opera Mini supports bookmarklets. Seriously, I’m blown away. I was hoping that the Nokia Open Source browser would have some way to perform simple user extension, but that hasn’t been the case as far as I can tell. I haven’t been successful in getting bookmarklets to work there at least, and my searches turn up nothing. The Mozilla folks are all over widgets and toolbar extensions for Minimo, but a S60 port seems to be quite a ways off. I’ve resorted to some pretty drastic acrobatics to try to get my mobile browser to give me some basic additional functions.

Who would have expected this to come out of what is effectively a thin client based browser implementation? Not me, that’s for sure. I used to use Opera Mini frequently even though I have a “full browser” (Nokia insists that the OS browser isn’t a “mobile browser” but a real full implementation) native on my E61. This cements it however, I’m using Opera Mini all the time.

The bookmarklets at o.yeswap.com are a great resource to get things kicked off. And the technique of appending the bookmarklet text to the url so you can bookmark the page and then remove the domain, nice. That should really help the relatively uninitiated at least get started. An iteration or two on the part of Opera to help reinforce the behavior and some clever bookmarkletting on the part of the community and I can see some really interesting stuff happening.

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