Re: browser-history applet

[Thomas Hedler <thomas hedler fen baynet de>]

If you save all bookmarks in HTML other applications, have to include
a HTML-Parser. This may be an overhead.
What about using the gconf-package to parse it?

Thomas

On 09-Aug-99 James M. Cape wrote:
> Fabrice Bellet wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:54:01PM -0500, James M. Cape wrote:
>> 
>> > There is a wish concerning a browser-history library at
>> > [http://www.jcinteractive.com/gnome-ui/software/libs/browser-hist
>> > ory.shtml].
>> > The idea is that all applications can use a single history (or
>> > portions
>> > of a repository), which also adds Netscape's history.
>> 
>> This proposal seems interesting. I'd like to work on it. Several
>> points
>> need to be studied :
>>   * storage format for this persistent history (xml ?)
>>   * how to populate this history database :
>>      - transparently through the X properties of the browser, as
>>      it
>>      already works for the actual browser-history. The problem is
>>      that this property is not generic to any browser. For
>>      example,
>>      gzilla and Mozilla don't work with browser-history.
>>      - explicitely through an API to be defined, and to be used
>>      in new apps dealing with URLs ?
>>      - explicitely in a proxy-like client/server scheme, to ensure
>>      compatibility with existing older browsers ?
>>   * how to exploit this database and how deeply ? How do this
>>   library
>>   will differ from proxies (like wwwoffle), that nicely can work
>>   with
>>   local search engines (htdig), except by the fact that this
>>   library'll
>>   keep URLs only and not the content?
>> 
>> One of the major interest of the actual b-h, is that it maintains
>> its
>> database in HTML format. So the history is instantaneously
>> available
>> to any browser without further processing of a given private
>> storage
>> format.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Fabrice
> 
> I would think that the library would combine the current method of
> getting the URLs from Netscape, as well as allowing apps to add
> them via
> an API.
> 
> Also, I think that storing the database in HTML format would be a
> Good
> Thing.
> 
> However, I'm not a programmer and can't really speak about what is
> best.
> The basic idea is to have a simple library that applications can
> use to
> share a common history.
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
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