[Zope] Bookmark manager protype

[Garry Steedman]

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/browserFrame
> 
> 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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