[Tickets #2565] Re: Gecko Bookmarks extension

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2565
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 Ticket             | 2565
 Updated By         | joey at joeyhewitt.com
 Summary            | Gecko Bookmarks extension
 Queue              | Trean
 Type               | Enhancement
 State              | Accepted
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Owners             | 
+New Attachment     | treanmarks.xpi
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joey at joeyhewitt.com (2007-04-08 22:55) wrote:

Here's the first (beta-ish) release of my solution to this bounty.  I've
oh-so-creatively named it TreanMarks (better suggestions welcomed.)  It
comes in two pieces: a patch to server-side Trean, mostly to add RPC
calls, and a Firefox extension implemented in javascript.

Features
=================
o 100% JS means it should be cross-platform! (or, as much so as
XmlHttpRequest is)
o A TreanMarks menu next to the Bookmarks menu
o Support for bookmark/folder deletion, adding bookmarks (by delegating to
Trean itself in a popped-up browser window), and bookmark/folder properties
(also delegated to Trean)
o Locally caching the bookmarks and then "synchronizing" via RPC, to cut
down on time spent down-/up-loading

TODOs
=================
o Look into 'compressing' server response XML (for RPC), by not indenting
prettily. I don't think this is even offered through the PHP extension :(
But I think it may cut down on wait times considerably.
o Pre-fetching bookmarks on browser load
o Caching bookmarks to disk, for "offline" access (if that makes any
sense) or just quicker pre-fetches on browser load

Bugs
=================
o Each browser window keeps its cache separately, so that means your Trean
bookmarks have to be loaded "into" each window.  I'd imagine this might be
simple to fix, I just haven't got around to it yet.

Request for Comments
=================
I've actually been wondering if there's a different, much better way to go
about this.  Are there already (preferably HTTP-based) protocols to do
stuff like this?  Perhaps Atom?  Anyways, I'll get this code out there
since I've already invested a bunch of time into it. ;)

Files
=================
o treanmarks.diff is a "cvs diff -Nur HEAD" of all my Horde-side changes.
o treanmarks.xpi is a Mozilla extension installer package.  It's a renamed
ZIP file, so you can get at all my extension source in there. (By the way,
anyone have a 32x32 Trean "heart" icon?)