Michal Ždanský Safari gets Offline Reading List in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion. At least that's according to Marco Arment, co-founder of the Tumblr blogging system and creator of Instapaper.
In iOS 5, Apple introduced a new pair of useful features to Safari – Reading List and Reader. While the reading list allows you to quickly save internet pages in a special category of bookmarks for later reading, the Reader can parse the text and images from the given article and display them without the other distracting elements of the page.
Apps have been offering a similar function for some time Instapaper, Pocket and new Readability, however, after saving the page, they parse the text and offer it for reading without the need for an Internet connection. If you want to view articles from the Reading List in Safari, you're out of luck without internet. This should change in the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6, as Apple will add the ability to save articles offline.
In fact, this feature is already available in Safari in the latest Mountain Lion build, the server pointed out Gear Live. However, you won't find it on iOS yet. Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, which Apple apparently took inspiration from, confirmed on the show On the Verge just the arrival of offline page reading in iOS 6. With the original two features, Apple was only halfway to the Instapaper concept, and thus not particularly threatening. But with offline reading, it would be worse for other services. But the advantage of Instapaper, Pocket and others is that any browser can be used to save articles, the Reading List is limited only to Safari.
Apple would therefore have to release a public API that would allow third-party apps to save articles for later reading. Integration into RSS readers, Twitter clients and others is crucial for the aforementioned services, and fixation on Safari would only make Apple's solution a minor issue.
Hello, I'm currently dealing with this, does it work in iOS 6?