On 11/15/07, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Fair enough. Thanks, -mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
