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Increasingly, I’m doing more of my (non-work) web browsing on my PDA. <\/p>\nIncreasingly, I’m doing more of my (non-work) web browsing on my PDA. <\/p>\n
And as a big fan of using del.icio.us<\/a> to store and share interesting sites that I come across, I’ve missed the tools you can get for desktop browsers (like Internet Explorer<\/a> or Firefox<\/a>) that let you throw your current page at your del.icio.us list. <\/p>\n If you’ve not used them before, the idea is to have a popup window that gets prefilled with the URL and name of the page you are looking at in your browser, lets you add a few tags, then submit it to del.icio.us when you hit ‘Save’. <\/p>\n So I thought I’d have a go at creating something similar for Pocket Internet Explorer – the browser you get with Windows Mobile. <\/p>\n To cut a long story short, I’ve put something together and it seems to work. If you have a Windows Mobile PDA and fancy giving it a try, feel free to give it a go<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n To go into a little more detail… it was more of a pain than I expected. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n This is not as trivial as I expected – it took hundreds and hundreds of lines of code just to get a new entry in the Internet Explorer’s menu that gets me access to the web browser object as an IWebBrowser2<\/a>. And (perhaps especially so for someone who has been getting a little lazy with Java and C#! \ud83d\ude09 ), some of it is a little intricate and complex. <\/p>\n Still, once done I could use my access to the browser to launch my “post to del.icio.us” form and prefill it with the URL and page name of PIE’s current page. From there, the form uses the public del.icio.us API to send all the info off to my del.icio.us list. <\/p>\n I should say a few thanks… I was helped out in my hacking from a few places:<\/p>\n![\"screenshot\"\/](\"post-images\/070717-delicious0.gif\")
Internet Explorer really isn’t the most friendly beast to the plugin writer! Basically, I needed to write a DLL in C++ that hooked into one of the menu extensions in Pocket Internet Explorer. <\/p>\n\n