12.04.2007

Offline Webpages for iPhones or Anything With Bookmarks In 4 Steps

As wonderful and feature loaded as an iPhone running third-party apps is, it is not very useful when it comes to reading saved web pages. Which is why I have come to the fact which I must then use URIs. A URI contains all the HTML code of a page in the address it self. They are also know as "Data URLs"

Here is how to create one:

If you don't already have the source code of the page then here is how you can get it. As far as I can remember you can't get the page source on Internet Explorer, so just go ahead and use Safari or Firefox, and once you do, just go the the web page you would like to make mobile, and right click and view source, or go to your View menu on either Firefox or Safari and click "Page Source" (Firefox) or "View Source" (Safari). Select and copy everything on the page.

If you are like most people, you either don't know how to get that web page into one simple/short URL then go on over to URI Kitchen, and have it do the work for you.

Paste the code, and then click the Generate button at the bottom of the page. It should take you to a page with a link. This is your new URI! However you choose, make the link it gives you a bookmark on whatever it is you want to read the offline page on.

The easiest way to get it to an iPhone is to save it as a bookmark and sync it to your iPhone using Safari. If you sync with Internet Explorer, right click on the URI that was created and copy the link location, and then go into IE and create a new bookmark pasting the URI's link you just coppied the the bookmarks destination field.

Sync, and check to see if the page displays right if you have not already done so.