From freedesktop-xdg Fri Jun 27 08:46:34 2003 From: Claes Holmerson Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:46:34 +0000 To: freedesktop-xdg Subject: Re: Proposed Browser Bookmark Sharing Standard. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xdg&m=117278131405471 As far as I can see by a quick glance at the xbel spec, it doesn't define where the file is stored? Also I would think that much of the thoughts that have been put into the .desktop files relating to start menus etc, should apply equally well to bookmarks? After all, the start menu is kind of a bookmark list, only predefined, and pointing to applications instead of web pages. xbel means xml bookmark exchange language, and seems suitable more for import/export of bookmarks, less for sharing bookmarks and working together with the same set of bookmarks. Serveral applications that writes bookmarks at the same time using xbel would risk writing over each others changes. This is something I think this new proposal solves better. Perhaps this is not reason enough to change standard, but I think it is sane and fits well with other freedesktop standards. Claes On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Alexander Kellett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:46:17PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: > > I've been thinking that it would be nice if browsers shared bookmarks > > and history. So I wrote up the attached proposed standard. For those of > > you who prefer nicely formatted HTML there's also a URL: > > all the good [1] browsers now use xbel for bookmark files see: > http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/ > > > http://www.symonds.net/~botsie/bookmark/t1.html > > two points. > 1) imo files suck for bookmark storage, and xml is much nicer > 2) history needs to written/read extremely fast, possibly > contains browser specific data and sharing isn't really of > all that much use anyway imo. > > mvg, > Alex > > [1]: i.e. just galeon and konqi from what i remember, > though luckily opera can also import. > _______________________________________________ > Xdg-list mailing list > Xdg-list@freedesktop.org > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xdg-list >