Hello, dear applevis community. I have a mac related question, as the subject says, is it possible to create a bookmark or shortcut to a specific website on mac desktop, like in Ios homescreen? I’ve read some articles about that possibility, and for sighted people it is done via dragging an url from safari address bar to the desktop, but anyone knows how it’s done with voiceover? Thanks in advance for Your help, I’ve tried figuring out this for a ffew days now without any luck.
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Ok, so I found the way of
Ok, so I found the way of doing this by queuing different actions in automator and showing the website as an app on desktop, but I believe there must be a simpler way to do this. :)
Export Bookmarks
Have you tried exporting your bookmarks to your desktop, using safari file>export bookmark? I tried it, and I ended up with a single file on my desktop containing all my bookmarks, each one identified as a link ready to be opened. I didn't try clicking on any of them, though.
RE Save as web-archive
Hello Julia,
Something I do to save individual web pages as a file on my Mac. In Safari, move to File Menu, choose "Save as..." This will save the current Safari web page as a webarchive. You will end up with the complete web page as a file on your Mac, including all links, buttons and graphics. This resulting page can be opened in Safari and will be fully intact, regardless of current internet connection. If you have current internet access, the links and buttons will be "live" and can be interacted with as normal. The webarchive format will take up a bit more space since it saves all graphics embedded in the file, but it gives a complete web page experience regardless of internet connection. Of course, if you do not have a current internet connection, the links and buttons will not function correctly. After saving onto your Mac, it will have the ".webarchive" file extension. This can give me the full info on a web page for off-line use, but will not be 'connected'.
You can move the webarchive file around as normal in the Finder, group into folders of your own making, etc.
Hope this helps. :-)
Best regards.
try fluid
this app turn websights into apps, sort of what can be done in ios to add a webpage to your homescreen. Hth
thank You so much
Thanks for all the responses. I'll try fluit, and also I will try to play around with automator.