Re: [U9k-dev] more competition

[Steven M. <sc...@ed...>]

Josh Steiner wrote:
>>>I'm not too fond of puting this logic into the client itself, multiple
>>>front ends (ie, an html one like we have today) is really a key feature. 
>>
>>The hard work is already done on the client. In fact, adding complexity 
>>on the server doesn't really make the client any simpler, since will be 
>>using the RDF stuff in mozilla anyway (filtering an RDF datasource is 
>>like 3 lines of XUL).
> 
> 
> Then maybe I'm not following you, what sort of filtering would you be
> doing in XUL? 

Advanced stuff like "all links to mozilla.org" or something like sorting 
by date or number of visits.

> is this just choosing which sets of RDF to display?  if you
> are talking about building the lists/boxes/folders 

No, this would be done by having different folders (or RDF files) for 
each user and user's folders (for example there might be an scm 
directory that had an file ultra.rdf which would be my top level 
bookmarks, with different folders stored below that).

If you wanted to search over all your bookmarks then you would add all 
your user RDF files to one datasource and use mozilla to filter (i.e. 
search) that. Or you could pull in all users and search over that.

You definately wouldn't be pulling the whole database down each time.

> this definitely needs
> to be server side if we are going to have multiple frontends.
> 

I thought one of your ideas was to move to a mozilla only frontend. I 
think that was the last one you shared with me at least :-)

-s