Dnia piątek, 17 stycznia 2014 10:55:33 Sean Lynch pisze:
In Firefox it's called "The Awesome Bar", and it sifts through your history and bookmarks (I bookmark a lot, and tag these pretty exactly, which helps immensely).
I'm talking about anytime you type into text boxes.
Which "text boxes"? Any form on Teh Intertubes? THe AwesomeBar or SearchBar?
The goal of this proposal was to return to the hypertextual nature of the web in order to reduce our dependence on centralized indexes. However, I find your proposal to improve the utility of the AwesomeBar interesting.
It's easy (it just requires a habit of decent tagging), and effective -- when I remember an information I found important from a website I visited, it's usually in my bookmarks, tagged properly. This means 95% of the time as far as information I have already seen is concerned, the AwesomeBar reaching down to my bookmarks is enough to get what I need, no need to go to Google here.
The downside, of course, is that it works only for links that I have already visited.
So here's the idea: sharing bookmark tags and links with each other, via some extention for example, and making "The Awesome Bar" (damn, I hate that name) sift through bookmarks/tags of people in your "network" (what that means would have to be defined, but as Mozilla Sync can already store bookmarks, the data can already be on a server, just use it).
An even simpler proposal: assuming the AwesomeBar doesn't already include live bookmarks in its autocomplete functionality, add it. Then anyone can simply publish their bookmarks via RSS and anyone else can import them. Then someone can just add functionality to create live bookmarks that pull signed and possibly encrypted (with Ed25519/Curve25519 of course) RSS feeds from a DHT.
Not that easy, as everybody would need to publish their bookmark RSS/Atom channels not entirely in accordance with how it is being done usually on the 'Net. Usually, only the first 10-30 headlines/items are in the RSS/Atom channel, the older ones (it is assumed) are already cached in users' RSS/Atom readers. Firefox does not cache live bookmarks, so each time you only get the current 10-30 items, all older are "lost". This makes sense with regard to the intended use of this functionality in Firefox (and other browsers), but unfortunately makes it harder to implement interesting bookmarks sharing the way you described. -- Pozdr rysiek