bookmark management

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Howard Gibson <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:38:44 -0500
>
> teddy mills <teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
> > I have been trying to consolidate my bookmarks on my computers in
>  > different locations.
>  > I have found the Firefox addon called FoxMarks.
>  > However I would imagine there are a number of open source bookmark
>  > management systems out there.
>  >
>  > Does anyone have recommendations on a opensource bookmark management system?
>
>  Teddy,
>
>    Learn to code HTML.
>
>    Create a bookmarks web page, and store it on your favorite computers, bury it on a web page, or store it on a flash stick.
>
>    HTML is just about the simplest thing you can learn on a computer.  A web page on a flash stick is just about as portable as you can get.

The thing is, it's not HTML that needs to be "coded."

Web browsers generally include a bookmark manager that provides the
essential hook that when you click on a suitable menu option or press
a key sequence (alt-D/alt-B), the page presently being browsed gets
added to a bookmark list.

Teddy would like to capture his bookmark list in some way such that it
can be used on multiple hosts, preferably with no need to manually
copy the list around.

That would most definitely NOT involve "coding HTML."

The way to control that sort of thing would instead involve:
  a) Creating some centralized service for URL storage and retrieval,
so that the bookmarks reside as a "web service" of some sort.  Could
be implemented in almost any language, and data storage could use
several forms, including:
     - HTML (dodgy)
     - XML
     - Some equivalent to s-expressions
     - DBMS (SQL or DBM)
  b) Writing an extension for the web browser to get it to communicate
with the web service
     - Probably implemented in JavaScript; that's the usual way of
extending web browser functionality these days...

There are a number of existing services (e.g. - Yahoo! del.icio.us,
probably the most famous) that already implement exactly this sort of
service.  I am not aware of "free software" implementations, but some
people may not care.  On the other hand, by pointing out
implementations, that may spark someone to say "oh, and here's a link
to an implementation using free software where you get to run the
service!"
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