On 15 Nov 2007, at 7:16 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: > On 11/15/07, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 15 Nov 2007, at 6:40 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at 09:44AM, "Alexander H. >>>> Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> *With searches, it's clear what can and can't be searched. With >>>>> Web, >>>>> it's not (there's also no Help button in the URL bar). Some >>>>> default >>>>> bookmarks or a homepage setting (Google Scholar?) might be one >>>>> way of >>>>> dealing with this. >>>> >>>> You mean it's not clear what sites can be scraped? You can search >>>> anything you want, since it's just a web page. The lack of help is >>>> a bug...we're waiting for someone to fix it ;). >>> >>> Well, true, it might be useful if something were included somewhere >>> about what kinds of sites do work (i.e., which site-scrapers already >>> exist) >>> >>> BTW, clicking on a PDF link in Google Scholar (and presumably >>> elsewhere) loads it quite nicely in the window, but then tells me >>> that >>> it "Failed to read HTML string from document." In Leopard, there's a >>> nice floaty window that allows you to open it in Preview, from which >>> you can drag it back into BibDesk... but it would be nice to have an >>> option to attach the PDF as a local-url when it's imported. >>> >>> -A >> >> That would be impossible. there is no item to link the PDF to. Items >> that are not imported yet are not editable (and that won't change). >> > > Just a thought about this - if a user wants to edit an item that isn't > imported yet, wouldn't it be safe to assume that they will want to > import that item? > So this means that once a user changes an item, we just import it > for them. > Probably there would have to be a notice sheet that explains this > (assuming you could choose to not show that notice again). > > Comments on that idea? > I understand it's some work, and the current behavior is easily > understood, so I wouldn't fight for it, but it's come up before... > > -mike
The imported item is not the same item as the external item (and it can't be). So it would not make any difference whether it's imported or not. There are many problems if we would make external items editable. E.g. lots of editing expects the item to have a document, which they don't have. I certainly don't feel like looking into it. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
