Bookmark manager protype
I've got a proof-of-concept prototype of a bookmark manager up and running and if anyone is interested I'd like people to try it out and give me some feedback. The idea was to allow creation of a Web-accessible set of bookmarks as easily as creation of bookmarks local to a browser without having to fill out forms. It came out of frustration from trying to keep track of bookmarks in multiple browsers on multiple computers at multiple locations. I wanted it all to work on the Web and not depend on locally installed software so I could even get to my bookmarks when visiting a friend or at a public access machine. I've done it by having Zope act in effect like a proxy browser or a Browser-in-a-Browser. You browse the web in the main frame of a page and the upper frame has a form to enter a new address and links to create or view bookmarks. The main problem is that heavily scripted pages often don't work in the proxy browser, so I've provided a means at any step of the way to escape the proxy browser to look at the page directly. If you're interested, you can see the prototype at: http://cpgray.lib.uwaterloo.ca:8180/noddies/bookmarkerExperiment/browserFram... One 'feature' I have noticed is that it doesn't seem to like URLs consisting of a domain only (e.g. http://www.zope.org/ vs. http://www.zope.org/index_html). Cheers, Chris
I've got a proof-of-concept prototype of a bookmark manager up and running and if anyone is interested I'd like people to try it out and give me some feedback. The idea was to allow creation of a Web-accessible set of bookmarks as easily as creation of bookmarks local to a browser without having to fill out forms. It came out of frustration from trying to keep track of bookmarks in multiple browsers on multiple computers at multiple locations. I wanted it all to work on the Web and not depend on locally installed software so I could even get to my bookmarks when visiting a friend or at a public access machine. I've done it by having Zope act in effect like a proxy browser or a Browser-in-a-Browser. You browse the web in the main frame of a page and the upper frame has a form to enter a new address and links to create or view bookmarks. The main problem is that heavily scripted pages often don't work in the proxy browser, so I've provided a means at any step of the way to escape the proxy browser to look at the page directly. If you're interested, you can see the prototype at: http://cpgray.lib.uwaterloo.ca:8180/noddies/bookmarkerExperiment/browserFram... One 'feature' I have noticed is that it doesn't seem to like URLs consisting of a domain only (e.g. http://www.zope.org/ vs. http://www.zope.org/index_html). I have also been looking at this for a client for a portal (based on Plumtree) but with Zope acting as one of the gadget servers. The ideal would be some kind of drag and drop bookmarks into a folder tree. In Internet Explorer there is a lot you can do. (Inlcuding uploading your IE bookmarks to the server). The nicest I have seen is at www.djuice.com which is a Euopean WAP portal. You can set up your WAP folder tree menu by a nice DHTML based Bookmark editor. You can for certain URLs drag em into the menu, cool! There is a nice DHTML package called folder tree that is avialbale form javascript resource sites. FYI, Albert Boulanger vPatch Technologies aboulanger@vpatch.com
Has anyone tried to save/use their bookmarks/favorites on a remote server using aliases and WebDAV? If the browser doesn't wig out try to read/write across the network then there are probably a whole whack of cool things you do with zope. <fwiw> I wrote a set of Perl modules (shhhhh) for converting IE folders into something a little more palatable, like XBEL. http://aaronland.net/toys/favorites/ </fwiw>
I have also been looking at this for a client for a portal (based on Plumtree) but with Zope acting as one of the gadget servers. The ideal would be some kind of drag and drop bookmarks into a folder tree. In Internet Explorer there is a lot you can do. (Inlcuding uploading your IE bookmarks to the server). The nicest I have seen is at www.djuice.com which is a Euopean WAP portal. You can set up your WAP folder tree menu by a nice DHTML based Bookmark editor. You can for certain URLs drag em into the menu, cool! There is a nice DHTML package called folder tree that is avialbale form javascript resource sites.
FYI, Albert Boulanger vPatch Technologies aboulanger@vpatch.com
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Has anyone tried to save/use their bookmarks/favorites on a remote server using aliases and WebDAV? If the browser doesn't wig out try to read/write across the network then there are probably a whole whack of cool things you do with zope. <fwiw> I wrote a set of Perl modules (shhhhh) for converting IE folders into something a little more palatable, like XBEL. http://aaronland.net/toys/favorites/ </fwiw> The IE 5 API has an upload favorites thats send it to the server in Netscape bookmarks format (html). FYI, Albert Boulanger aboulanger@vpatch.com
Chris, interesting idea: FWIW: how about displaying existing bookmarks in a drop down to the right of the address box and loading them into the bottom frame when selected...? cheers, Garry On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Chris Gray wrote:
I've got a proof-of-concept prototype of a bookmark manager up and running and if anyone is interested I'd like people to try it out and give me some feedback.
The idea was to allow creation of a Web-accessible set of bookmarks as easily as creation of bookmarks local to a browser without having to fill out forms. It came out of frustration from trying to keep track of bookmarks in multiple browsers on multiple computers at multiple locations. I wanted it all to work on the Web and not depend on locally installed software so I could even get to my bookmarks when visiting a friend or at a public access machine.
I've done it by having Zope act in effect like a proxy browser or a Browser-in-a-Browser. You browse the web in the main frame of a page and the upper frame has a form to enter a new address and links to create or view bookmarks.
The main problem is that heavily scripted pages often don't work in the proxy browser, so I've provided a means at any step of the way to escape the proxy browser to look at the page directly.
If you're interested, you can see the prototype at: http://cpgray.lib.uwaterloo.ca:8180/noddies/bookmarkerExperiment/browserFram...
One 'feature' I have noticed is that it doesn't seem to like URLs consisting of a domain only (e.g. http://www.zope.org/ vs. http://www.zope.org/index_html).
Cheers, Chris
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