Re: [Apb-development] JavaScript Popout and Caching Patches for 1.1.01

[Darron F. <da...@fr...>]

On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Nathanial Hendler wrote:

> We have plans to do 1.2.00 which will include group delete, and maybe a 
> few other advanced editing
> tools.  It will also have a bookmark import and export.

How are you guys doing bookmark import and export? Is there some sort of 
modular system where somebody can write a plugin for a specific browser 
on a specific platform? That plugin would define the syntax for that 
particular browser.

I'd like to help out with this if I could - because I'd love to be able 
to export bookmark lists to the various browsers I have running on 
various machines.

How are you guys planning on weighting the bookmarks? Will the most 
popular sites go into your toolbar, grouped into folders?

> 1.2.00 will be our last release (not
> including any bux fixes) before 2.0.00 which is the version that will 
> include both your caching
> and popup code.

Cool. What else will 2.0.00 include? Multi-user? Any other ideas?

I'd also like to request another slight change to the DB schema slightly.

I'm toying with the idea of adding the ability to pull in RSS/RDF feeds 
from sites. I think that all it needs at this point is a single varchar 
in the apb_bookmarks table:

ALTER TABLE `apb`.`apb_bookmarks` ADD `bookmark_rss_feed` VARCHAR(255) 
AFTER `bookmark_url`;

I haven't figured out how I want to display them yet - but it may be 
something like this:

1. You can add the feed when you're adding or editing a bookmark. That 
will probably have to be done manually - I don't see a way to do it 
automagically with a bookmarklet yet.

2. Those feeds will all appear on a single page that aggregates them all 
together. /view_feeds.php or something like that.

3. Those feeds will be pulled down and either placed in a DB or written 
to /tmp for a caching mechanism. We should be able to set a caching time 
as a preference so that feeds aren't being grabbed every time the page 
is being reloaded.

That way, I could collect some of my favorite sites and see their 
content on a single page.

I haven't started working on it yet, I've just been thinking about it 
for a little while and exactly how I want to do it.

> If you can do the diff, I'd like to have it, just in case I decide to 
> start working on 2.0.00 late
> one night.  But, if you're busy, and don't really feel like doing it 
> until a later date, that's
> cool too.
>
> I don't know if I mentioned this already, but I've decided to just 
> stick with the curl stuff that
> you guys did, and if the user doesn't have curl, none of the cacheing 
> tools will be available to
> them.

Fair enough - I've added a a conditional display of the caching row when 
you create a bookmark - no curl and it doesn't show.

> I hope this delay to merge your code isn't taxing your patience.  We 
> definitely plan to use it.

No problem. I'll keep merging it locally until it's ready to be 
included. That way, I can make little tweaks and fixes along the way.
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