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> It's currently at 259k for the min version.

It's only 59.0 KB, see http://cdn.opalrb.org/opal/current/opal.min.js

The author has a nice write-up on the motivation behind it here: http://jgaskins.org/blog/2015/1/17/clearwater-a-front-end-we...

Downloaded it for the Find in Page feature and uninstalled pretty much immediately - I thought it would be serious competition for my Find In Page plugin for Safari and finally deliver this functionality in a native way. 

Instead, over 60% of the screen is permanently covered by the toolbar at the top and the keypad at the bottom. No way to scroll either while in the Find in Page mode. No way to step backwards throught search results either - next button only. What were you guys thinking?! Find in Page could have been a killer feature for you over Safari, and it falls way short. 

In addition, the app does not feel Cocoa Touch-like - UI elements look faked and the feel is different. Sorry, I had much higher expectations for days waiting for the release, and it just did not deliver iPhone-like experience. Better luck in the next version, I guess. BTW, love Opera on the desktop!

PS: almost forgot - PDF is not supported at all and is delegated to Safari instead!

In case anyone's interested in pedantic details, the color appears to be #0033CC (not #0044CC) and it can best be described as STRONG VIOLET (according to the Color Curious iPhone app).

Please add the ability to search.

I think tilt-scrolling would be quite unusable, albeit a nice optional feature - would be nice to play with it to see if it really works. There is definitely a problem with scrolling on the iPhone when it comes to long pages - making scrolling to the bottom of a page pracically impossible in some scenarios. There is this bias towards scrolling to the top, but not the bottom embedded into iPhone's design. That's why I made the End Of Page app for Safari on the iPhone - it lets you scroll to the bottom of very long pages without having to flick forever. It is free - I am releasing it in the hope that others find it useful. I should be on the App Store on Friday, provided all goes well with the approval process.

Yep. Or Windows Mobile (shudder). They all got in-page search. How that got left out of the Safari design is beyond me.

The other thing that got left out is the ability to scroll to the bottom of the page - there is scroll to top, but no scroll to bottom (a real problem on long pages - it may be practically impossible to flick your way to the bottom of a long page). So, I made another app - "End Of Page" - this one's totally free and hits the App Store on Friday (Apple willing, of course).

Context: "How to become rich even if nobody is following you on twitter" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107828) - my "1$ a day" app now "...one of the most useful applications you've ever installed on your iPhone."

Absolutely stunning on OS X Safari - unbelievably responsive!

More info on color names: colordictionary.info And an app that can help add some objectivity to your color perception: colorcurious.com

Both made by a Russian guy :)

Does not do anything funny on the iPhone (tried both the mobile and regular version of the site).

Cappuccino and Objective-J nicely abstract all of these away: http://cappuccino.org

Apple has finally made a netbook - and they did it on their terms. Bravo!

I find the topic of color dictionaries fascinating. I compiled some information while working on an app here: http://colordictionary.info and made my color dictionary data available for download as a Ruby hash here: http://colordictionary.heroku.com/data.rb

As the blog post author pointed out, let's not miss "a forest for the trees" - the post is not about THIS bookmarklet (as much as I'd like it to be, for self-serving reasons) or some other bookmarklet. MobileOrchard blog is for developers, not consumers of apps, and this post is about opening a new market and new possibilities for software applications that could benefit from tight integration with Safari and run in the context of any webpage - your imagination is the limit. The idea is that if one can monetize this, more professional-grade bookmarklets can become available. This is an opportunity for developers, and a boon for consumers.

dreyfiz, thank you for the kind words throughout!

Hacker News readership can be a tough crowd, but I wouldn't want to have it any other way ;) Thoughtful comments (i.e. where the reader took the time to do a little bit of research before commenting) make it all worth it.

iCab looks pretty cool - well worth checking out for its rich feature set.

On the other hand, I feel that switching from Safari to a different browser merely for the sake of in-page search would be overkill (like using a hammer to swat a fly) - I actually have no other beef with Safari, I genuinely like it. So I felt a bookmarklet would be the right-sized tool for the job.

I see how packaging up an existing bookmarklet and selling it is an app could indeed be construed as unfair (although, a point could be made about the added value of the package itself). Creating an original piece of software, on the other hand, and making it available to the public for a fee, is the very definition of fair play in my book.

Here are 5 reasons: http://findinpage.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-makes-this-find-...

For the sake of preservation of the market itself. If my only option is to make my app free just because others have discounted their work beyond reason, I may opt to no longer deliver any new products to such a market (give up on it), and pursue other markets instead. This benefits neither the developers nor the consumers.

Please do ;) Once you install it, here are a few suggested search terms guaranteed to put a smile on your face:

empty string, $, <, >, span, div, table

Spoiler: any reserved Regular Expressions characters will result in an invalid search. Any reserved HTML keywords will expose markup and garble the page beyond recognition.

More details on that here: http://findinpage.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-makes-this-find-...

cmelbye, you are right to point this out - there are actually several incarnations of free find in page bookmarklets floating around the Web since 2007. I even wrote this post explaining why I felt the need to create my own and charge for it:

http://findinpage.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-makes-this-find-...

In a gist, all the ones I have tried have no UI and have major design and usability, not to mention technical issues (you can read the blog post for details). At any rate, they were not good enough for my own use.

The idea is that if you have a serious need for a reliable, convenient, usable tool then you wouldn't mind paying $0.99 for it.

milestinsley, thank you for a thoughtful comment and kind words about the bookmarklet. As for the app itself, you are totally correct - it has 0 features - it is just a convenient delivery mechanism for the bookmarklet data.

But there is more to it: I was trying to find a way to use the App Store infrastructure to sell a bookmarklet. I think this is the first time this has been attempted - only time will tell if this scheme gains acceptance, or, as you suggest, people will balk at the idea of paying for apps that simply copy a URL to the pasteboard.

Last note regarding "...a lot of people, who are used getting a lot more for that price..." - I think this is more of a testament to the sad state of the App Store than anything else. $0.99 is the lowest price the App Store lets you charge for an app. Below that is free. Since I cannot go any lower than $0.99, I think the developers whose apps deliver more value than mine should charge more - not the other way around. The fundamental problem with with the App Store is that this mentality took root and flourished, creating a race to the bottom.

Shameless bit of self-promotion in the hope that it brings value to iPhone-wielding Hacker News readers like me.

Every Web browser has a find in page feature, both desktop and mobile, except for Safari on the iPhone. Not any more.