Comments on: Calling iCab Mobile from within Safari on the iPhone

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:19 +0000

@Alexander
Ah, great! Thanks for the support and a really great Browser

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:26:05 +0000

@Jacob
In the settings app of the device, you’ll find some additional settings for iCab Mobile. And here there’s a switch to let other Apps open URLs in new Tabs.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:52:00 +0000

Hi!

I realized when using the scheme web:// or icabmobile:// iCab mobile on iPhone and iPad opens the url in an existing tab, causing the previous loaded website to be “overwritten”. This especially is annoying because history isn’t saved and you can’t go back — so the website is lost forever, if you don’t remember what you’ve been visiting before :/

…is there a setting I missed to tell iCab mobile to open incoming URL in a new tab?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:51:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It works perfectly.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:52:25 +0000

@Ben
Yes, Safari is a little bit strange. If you add a new Bookmark, Safari does not allow to change the URL. But if you later edit the same Bookmark (tap on the “Edit” button in the bookmarks list and then tap on the Bookmark entry), you can change the URL.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:55:53 +0000

Hi.
I can’t seem to change the bookmark URL in safari. It is greyed out. The title can be changed. Is bookmarklet different to bookmark? I am new to the iPhone. Am I missing something obvious? Loving the icab browser. Thanks.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:27:56 +0000

@Zobi
What exactly have you done to create the bookmarklet in iCab Mobile? The 1Password bookmarklet should also work in iCab Mobile. The only problem is that Safari for the Mac has a bug when exporting its bookmarks (Safari forgets to escape quote characters within JavaScript URLs in the exported bookmarks), which makes the bookmarklet invalid. After correcting the errors in the exported bookmarks file, it can be imported in iCab and the bookmarklet should be in iCab as well. You need to replace all occurences of the quote character ” within javascript code of the bookmarklet by “"” in the exported file.

By: Zobi

Zobi — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:57:23 +0000

Very i try to make 1password bookmarklet available for icab mobile but it didn t work…

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:04:16 +0000

@Zobi
Sorry, but I’m not really sure what your problem is and what you want to do.

By: Zobi

Zobi — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:57:54 +0000

Hi i already use 1password.
Gernot say icab mobile work with icab i try but it didn t work.
Wich version of icab can i use ?
It the only things why i already use safari instead of icab

By: Gernot

Gernot — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:54:40 +0000

Hi Alexander,
yes, the 1Password bookmarklet works with the new version of iCab Mobile – but 1Password only opens Safari.
I will send them an email and ask if they can implement iCab also.

Best wishes, Gernot.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:45:44 +0000

@Gernot
The next release of iCab Mobile will also support custom URL schemes of other Apps like 1Password (this should work already, but because of a bug it didn’t). So the 1Password bookmarklet would also work in the next release of iCab Mobile. But I think this doesn’t help yet, because the 1Password app itself would only call Safari and never iCab at the moment. So there’s still some work to do in 1Password in order to use 1Password together with iCab Mobile. But this would not be very hard at all.

By: Gernot

Gernot — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:13:03 +0000

Hi Alexander,

as far as I understand the bookmarklet of “1Password touch Pro” is:

javascript:window.location=’onepassword://’+window.location

But please check it on the web page http://agilewebsolutions.com/
If you go to http://help.agile.ws/1Password_touch/pro_edition.html
and then click on the video then it will explain the logic of this bookmarklet.

It works fine with Safari and I would be delighted if you can manage to let it work with iCab.

Beste Grüße, Gernot.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:14:50 +0000

@Gernot Schiefer
Where do I find this bookmarklet for 1Password?
I assume this bookmarklet should also work with iCab if all Safari-specific references are exchanged by general references. But I don’t know this bookmarklet, so I don’t know what it is doing.

By: Gernot Schiefer

Gernot Schiefer — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:52:32 +0000

Hi Alexander,
the first bookmarklet works fine for me. (The second version not yet.)
But I have a wish: I use 1Password on my iPhone for all my passwords etc.
There is a bookmarklet bookmarklet from agilewebsolutions which works together with safari but not with iCab. Can you tell me if I can change the bookmarklet so that it will work with icab too? Or do I have to ask agilewebsolutions to implement that?n
Beste Grüße, Gernot.