On 1/12/11 12:35 AM, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 1/11/11 12:55 AM, Ray_Net wrote: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>> In Netscape's Navigator 4.x, there was a capability to set bookmark >>>> shortcuts. I could set a bookmark in one place within my bookmarks file >>>> and then set a pointer to that bookmark in another place within the same >>>> file. That pointer was a shortcut and was used as if it were a regular >>>> bookmark. If I changed the actual bookmark (e.g., if the URI changed), >>>> that change would be reflected in all the shortcuts. That way, I could >>>> file copies of a bookmark in several different folders in the file but >>>> would have to maintain only one instance of the bookmark. >>>> >>>> I think this capability disappeared in Mozilla Suite. Will it be >>>> restored in SaeMonkey 2.1? >>>> >>> >>> In a certain point of vue, a bookmark *is* a shortcut. >>> Why did you need a shorcut of a shortcut ? Duplicating the places where >>> you can jump to a site ? >> >> For this discussion, "shortcut" does NOT mean an Internet shortcut as >> defined by Microsoft. Instead, it means a pseudo-bookmark in the >> bookmarks file that merely points to an actual bookmark in that same file. >> >> I'll give just three examples of how I want to use this, but I have many >> more. >> >> In my bookmarks, I have a folder named "creating Web sites"; it contains >> a sub-folder named "Font Selections". I also have a folder named >> "fonts". There are Web sites that relate both to selecting fonts for >> Web pages and to downloading fonts. I would like to bookmark those Web >> sites both in ["creating Web sites"> "Font Selections"] and in "fonts". >> >> In my bookmarks, I have a folder named "Weather". I also have a folder >> named "Nature, Science, and Technology". I would like to bookmark the >> Web site "Bad Meteorology" at >> <http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadMeteorology.html> in both folders. >> >> In my bookmarks, I have a folder named "$$$"; it contains a sub-folder >> named "taxes" with sub-sub-folders "Federal" and "California". I also >> have a folder named "Gov't, Politics,& the Law"; it contains >> sub-folders named "U. S. Govt" and "California". The "U. S. Govt" >> sub-folder contains a sub-sub-folder named "Executive". I want >> bookmarks to the IRS Web site at<http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/> both in >> ["$$$"> "taxes"> "Federal"] and in ["Gov't, Politics,& the Law"> "U. >> S. Govt"> "Executive"]. I want bookmarks to the Franchise Tax Board >> Web site at<http://www.ftb.ca.gov/> both in ["$$$"> "taxes"> >> "California"] and in ["Gov't, Politics,& the Law"> "California"]. >> >> I did this with Netscape Navigator 4.7. If a URI changed, I only had to >> change it in the actual bookmark; the change would also apply to its >> shortcuts. When I transitioned to Mozilla Suite, all my bookmark >> shortcuts were converted into actual bookmarks because the capability >> for shortcuts had been eliminated. Now, several years later, I still >> find occasional duplicate bookmarks that no longer have the same URI. >> >> I have approximately 1,000 bookmarks organized in over 120 folders, >> sub-folders, and sub-sub-folders. >> > > This is just what i said ... > A well organized hierarchy is to have the info in only *one* place.
It would be nice if Web sites only addressed a single topic, but that does not happen. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
