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As I was testing Matto's new sub-search capabilities in the viewer,
I noticed a few things in the Bookmarks form that we could enhance to make
it much more useful. Bear with me for a moment while I try to explain them:
Feature (or bug?) 1
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When you bookmark a page that is prefixed by an image on the page,
something like:
<image here> Here is a link on the page..
Bookmarking this (currently) will present you with a form in the
viewer that looks something like:
Name: []---------------------------------
[]---------------------------------
Here is a link on the page---------
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[ Add ] [ Cancel ]
Note that There are two carriage-return sequences prefixing the name
of the link, which seems to be because the link was prefixed by an
image, which doesn't get copied into the bookmark edit form itself.
Ideally, we should yank out any non-character elements before
populating the edit form.
Features 2, 3, and 4 and 5
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Currently, when viewing the list of bookmarks, we have a "Done",
"Delete", and "Go" option, which gives us very basic functionality.
I'd like to suggest two new options, with potentially a couple of
others, depending on the complexity of adding these:
1. A way to edit the bookmark itself _from_ the Bookmark "Library".
(Can we call it a Bookmark Library? It might fit in line with the
Document Library naming scheme). Yes, I know we can tap on the
link, select "Add Bookmark" again, edit a new title for it at
that point, and then go back to Bookmarks and delete the
original, but that is tedious. The edit form is already there, we
just have to recall it with the proper event.
2. A "Delete All" option to delete the whole list of bookmarks (with
a confirmation dialog, of course =). Perhaps a "Purge" title or
something that is clearly indicating what it does.
3. Along the lines of the Document Library look and feel, how about
a little popup menu next to each bookmark, that can give us the
"Edit", "Delete", and "Info" options. The "Info" option would
display the actual URL that the bookmark references, similar to
the "Copy URL" function when we exceed maxdepth. Precautions have
to be in place of course, to make sure that when --no-urlinfo is
used, that this option is not available for use here.
4. A way to detect "duplicate" bookmarks. If I tap "Add Bookmark"
and add one, then add another one from the same location, with
the same name (of the page), it should overwrite the first, not
add an additional (duplicate) bookmark. Just a usability thing,
but since there isn't much room there to display text, duplicates
beyond 32 or so characters would be hard to spot.
Maybe even if the bookmark had a different title, but referenced
the same point in the same page, if I selected "Add Bookmark" on
that page, we could pop up a form that says "You already have a
bookmark to this location. Would you like to edit the existing
bookmark, or replace it with a new one? [ Edit ] [ Replace ]" or
something like that.
The reason I've thought of these, is because when I was testing the
new viewer, my bookmarks were prefixed with the spaces, which render as
little squares in PalmOS (on my device). The little squares looked
suspisciously similar to the little MemoryStick icons in the Document
Library. I've attached a small screenshot to show what I mean here.
The floor is open for comments.
d.
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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