Comments on: Microsummaries in Firefox 2

By: xxx

xxx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s pity one cannot specify separate microsummary page (like you RSS channels – you don’t create them using XSLT from the appropriate page!), it would be very small compared with downloading each time the page and then extracting microsummaries from it.

By: mk

mk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know, this sounds like a rather useless feature to me. Most of the time, I give custom names to my bookmarks anyway; if they would constantly change, how can I find something in this mess?

Thinking of bookmars, the first and most annoying thing which comes to my mind is that Firefox doesn’t natively support to store them on a remote server and thus share them with other browser installations.

They should have focused on those features which increase, not decrease usability…

By: xxx

xxx — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

mk: well, it is because FF’s concept of bookmark is somewhat broader than the normal one. You can put “bookmarks” onto special toolbar and here the microsummaries DO make sense. (It would however make even more sense if one could put “microsummaries” – or even something like “nanosummaries” or “picosummaries” on gnome-pannel for example;).

james henstridge: fortunatelly you don’t have to use generators, you can just create very simple (i.e. small) web page, that produces one-line text/plain with a summary. (I’ve implemented this on http://www.evangnet.cz/ and it works just fine).

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

xxx: that’s interesting. The spec on wiki.mozilla.org only mentions using a element to link to a microsummary generator.

If I can link directly to a microsummary, then that solves my problem. I’d feel safer if they included this feature in the spec though.

Thanks.