From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:47:40 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Storing bookmarks via 9p Message-ID: <20070429144740.GA8078@nibiru.local> References: <20070330081027.GB6999@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 525a56ea-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Darren Bane wrote: Hi, > I'm not sure that any standard is needed. You can just store > the bookmarks in a text file and plumb them (e.g. from 9term > or acme) to your Web browser. Check out "9 man 4 plumber" > for details. The idea is to define cross-browser + cross-platform standard and let the client use an tiny filesystem abstraction library with 9P semantics (in fact most times just call an 9p or FUSE server remotely or through an pipe). So the application once connects to the fs (not necessarily mount it) and then entirely works within there. The application has no idea how the data is actually stored. This way, the bookmark storage is completely independent from the client. You can use any client (which supports that ;)) on any bookmark storage. Things like remote bookmarks, collaboration, etc are completely hidden behind the bookmark server. I've started writing some draft: http://j.metux.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23 BTW: similar things could be done with mailboxes, too (I'll write some bit about this later ...) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------