Some random OO feature ideas

[Chris Janton]

On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 06:24 America/Phoenix, Angus McIntyre 
wrote:

> Another unrelated idea would be the use of OmniOutliner as a bookmark 
> manager. Two things might be nice to have here. One would be a URL 
> column type: anything in the column could be assumed to be a URL, and 
> clicking on it would cause it to be passed to the default handler for 
> the appropriate URL scheme.
>
A special URL column is a terrible idea. A better idea is to have a 
command-click (or double-click) on a URL anywhere in the outline open a 
URL (including mail addresses) just like mail applications or browsers.

> A second would be the ability to import and export bookmark files. 
> I've taken a quick look at the Explorer Favorites file, and it seems 
> to be fairly skanky HTML. This would be difficult to parse using, say, 
> the XML Tools OSAX, so I haven't seriously tried to AppleScript a 
> solution. But it shouldn't be that hard to parse or generate and the 
> ability to suck bookmark files into OmniOutliner, play with them, and 
> then write them out again might definitely be a selling point.
>
Please. OMNI group, please don't teach OmniOutliner how to parse HTML. 
Make it do really great outlines. It doesn't have to parse HTML...

Just my 2 cents.

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