Jul 24, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: rossr
I discovered back in my Treo days that Google has a page that translates web pages to "mobile-friendly" versions. I find that loading pages using this URL reduces page load time, and makes them easier to read on the iPhone. So, I created a bookmarklet that allows you to take the current page in Mobile Safari and run it through the Google page to display a mobile optimized version of the site.
Here's how:
- Create a bookmark on your iPhone with the following URL:
javascript:location.href='http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);
- Name and store the bookmark somewhere where you will have easy access from Mobile Safari on your iPhone. (I call my bookmark Google Mobilize or Open in GWT, and I store it in a folder called Hotlist (where I put my commonly-used iPhone URLs.)
- Visit a web page on your iPhone that is painfully large and/or formatted to be seen on a desktop screen. (For example: http://abcnews.com/ or http://sfgate.com/.) Note: You don't have to let the page completely load; just enough so that the address shows up in the URL field.
- While on the large page, open your bookmarks and open the new bookmarklet you just created. This will send and process the current URL through the Google mobile translation service.
- View the page and get to the content quicker.
