From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 21 12:32:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A1B37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16dztX-0006uB-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:47 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:47 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross platform bookmarks and address books? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21 Feb 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Eric Anderson writes: > > So how does one add to the list easily? Paste the url's in to a > > form? Just curious.. > > Obviously. It would be nice if all browsers could have hooks to allow adding bookmarks and viewing bookmarks using some standard format. Then you could write whatever tool you want to manage it. So then you wouldn't have to "paste .. in to a form". For example, selecting "add bookmark" could send the URL, title, etc. to some helper application. And clicking "view bookmarks" (or whatever) would run the helper application so it could either output the top level links or categories or it could run as a standalone application. These helper tools could handle the datafile locally or remotely. It seems like I heard that konqueror allows use of some "standard" bookmark format. This would all seem valuable to me. I should write some patches for links and lynx to use some helper tools. And then write some scripts that compare new .netscape/bookmarks.html with current bookmarks data and merge in new; and also regenerate netscape bookmarks.html from master list. (For remote access, you could simply point your whatever-browser to some generated HTML list of your bookmarks and use a simple CGI form to update if needed.) Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message