Monday, July 30, 2007

Wikipedia on the iPhone

As a followup to my previous post, I forgot to mention that I also have a very neat bookmark for accessing Wikipedia on the iPhone. It is basically a little piece of Javascript that you use instead of the regular URL. The benefit is that it will popup a little dialog and ask you which term/word to lookup even before anything is loading. This saves a lot of time when you happen to be on a slow EDGE connection.

To check it out, you have to add the bookmark in Safari on your Mac (or Windows) and sync it to your iPhone:

javascript:void(q=prompt('Wikipedia:',getSelection()));if(q)%20void(location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search='%20+%20escape(q))

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