Bookmark Thoughts

Very often, people will include some very good bookmarks to outside resources (or sometimes even inside resources) within their posts. I have a couple of comments about these links:

1) It would be beneficial to some users if the domain was automatically listed next to the link. At a glance, without a hover of the mouse, I could know where that link was heading to.

2) An option to determine the default destination for the link. For me, i prefer to have my links open in new browsers. If I could have a link popup into a new window (<a href="link" target="_new">), that would be cool. I assume other users might want to override this. Obviously, it would make sense to not allow users to use the target sub-function of the <a...> HTML command.

3) It might be cool and beneficial to have a "Link Harvester" to harvest all the links from within the body of the current page and have them as part of a Link Harvester Nodelet. Then, it would be cool if you could select some of these links, and be able to add them to a Link Catalogue of your own. This would be intended for links that lead to places outside the site (I found a good link to more info about HTML::TagFilter tonight, for example). Therefore, this would be above and beyond that of the personal nodelet.

--Coplan

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Re: Bookmark Thoughts by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 21, 2002 at 07:00 UTC
Personally, I prefer the mouse-hovering option to see where a link points to - it reduces the information thrown at me, but the information is still there if I'm interested in it. A good browser has a click combination to open a link in a new window, for example, IE has Shift-Click to open any link in a new window. I assume that Netscape has a similar feature (and no, it's NOT Shift-Click of course). For the link harvester, you could either write a small Perl script you pass the node ID to (HTML::LinkExtor comes to mind), or you could use for example the Internet Explorer Power Tweaks, which have some small JavaScript bookmarklet that opens up a new window with all links collected. I also here assume that something similar is also available for Netscape, but this could also be written in a line of JavaScript, and added as a favourite to your bookmarks. Of course, none of these methods necessates a change in the engine, but this makes it also much more likely that you'll see those features implemented `:-)` `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
(jeffa) Re: Bookmark Thoughts by jeffa (Bishop) on Feb 21, 2002 at 14:17 UTC
For number three - check out http://jeffa.perlmonk.org/cgi-bin/check_link.cgi. It was built to validate the links on a writeup but it also provides a list of links which you could do something with. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply]
Re: Bookmark Thoughts by Coplan (Pilgrim) on Feb 21, 2002 at 06:08 UTC
Oops...didn't preview very well, apparently...that parens up there is not supposed to have a link...it's supposed to contain (target="_new") -- except I had it as part of a Link tag. Sorry about that. --Coplan	[reply]