Hi Ian, It's pretty easy to create an Instapaper bookmarklet for Safari for the Mac. For that matter, it's pretty simple to create any bookmarklet for Safari, including the ones on the Google Translate pages. I would create the Bookmark so that it is saved to my Bookmarks Bar. That way, if it is the first item in your Bookmarks Bar, for example, just pressing Command+1 in Safari will activate the bookmarklet. (In the case of the Instapaper bookmarklet, this means saving the current web page to your "Read Later" list in Instapaper. For other bookmarks, pressing Command+2, Command+3, etc. will take you to the web page of the second, third, etc. bookmarks on your Bookmarks Bar.)
You're going to create a bookmark, then you'll copy the link to the bookmarklet on the Instapaper web page, and move to the bookmark in the "Show All Bookmarks" page of Safari. Using the context menu to edit the URL address you'll paste the link information into the address field of the bookmark you created. 1. In Safari, navigate to the URL of the Instapaper Bookmarklet: http://www.instapaper.com/extras 2. Press Command+D to create a bookmark to this page 3. In the dialog window for creating a bookmark, type "Read Later" into the text box for the name of the bookmark 4. VO-Right arrow to the pop up menu bar for the location you choose to keep the bookmark, press it with VO-Space, and select the "Bookmarks Bar" by typing the first few letters (e.g. "b" or "b o") and/or use your arrow keys to move to the selection. Make sure you've chosen the "Bookmarks Bar" and not the "Bookmarks Menu" item that is just after it, so you can use the Command+1, etc. shortcut to go to this bookmark. 5. Navigate to the "Add" button and press it with VO-Space. This adds the bookmark and also closes the dialog window. 6. Navigate to the "Read Later" bookmarklet. You can either navigate to the "Read Later bookmarklet" heading, to read the instruction that will tell you to drag to the bookmark to your Bookmarks bar, or navigate directly to the "Read Later" link for the bookmarklet. (Navigate any way you like with the web rotor set to headings or links, but item chooser menu is always a good option, so you could press VO-I, then quickly type "l i n" for the links, then type "r e a d" to find the "Read Later" bookmarklet link. VO-Space to move to the link. 7. VO-Shift-M to bring up the context menu and choose "Copy Link" 8. Command+Option+B to "Show All Bookmarks" in Safari. (Comment: I usually have my Safari view options set so that the Bookmarks Bar is hidden and the Tool Bar is hidden. These options can be set in the "View" menu on the menu bar, but you can also toggle them between show and hide with Command-Shift-B for the Bookmarks Bar and Command-Shift-Backslash for the Tool bar. This just simplifies using item chooser menu, since you won't get items that appear in the tool bar or bookmarks bar mixed in with your available selections.) 9. Navigate to the "Bookmarks Bar" item in the table of collections and highlight it by clicking with VO-Shift-Space. 10. Navigate to the table of bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar by pressing VO-Command-T then interact (VO-Shift-Down Arrow). You should be at the position of the first bookmark in the Bookmarks Bar, which should be the "Read Later" bookmark you just created. 11. VO-Shift-M to bring up the context menu and select "Edit Address" 12. Command-V to paste in the link you copied into the address field. 13. Command-Option-B to toggle off "Show all Bookmarks" and return to your previous web page. Command+Right bracket to go back to the previous page will also work here. You're done, and now whenever you visit a page you'd like to "Read Later" in Instapaper on your Mac or on your iOS device, just press Command+1 to mark it. Although I usually hide my Bookmarks Bar, on my iPad in the Settings menu I have Safari set so that "Always Show Bookmarks Bar" has the switch set to "on". Then I can just flick to the "Read Later" bookmark and double tap it. The same principle applies on any web page where you're asked to drag a bookmark to your Bookmarks Bar. Just bring up the context menu to copy the link for the bookmark, then paste it into the address field of the Bookmarks Bar item in question on the "Show All Bookmarks" page of Safari. This is the general way you can get java script bookmarklets to work -- you just paste the script into the URL address fields via the context menu. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 15, 2011, at 02:36, Ian Harrison wrote: > Hi to all, > > Am I right in thinking there is a way to bookmark articles in safari on the > mac so that I can later read them on my iphone? > > If so, what do I have to do to enable this? > > I love instapaper. > > Ian <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
