.Mac Bookmarks synch with Omniweb

[Scott J. Kramer]

--On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 14:29 -0700 Tom Ritch <ritch at mac.com> wrote:

> This would be such an obvious and excellent feature !!! I hope the
> only real question is, when?

How would certain compatibility issues be handled, like that OmniWeb
bookmarks can also be bookmark folders?  Gets a bit messy, IMHO.

Last Saturday I asked:

  Anyone know if there's work being done towards creating an "industry
  standard" format for bookmarks?  Maybe similar to what vCard is for
  contact info, but using XML (like Safari)?

Bookmark interoperability/synchronization seems destined to remain
"crippled", with various 3rd-party utilities/services (often browser
and/or OS dependent) to minimize suffering, until that happens.  By
now this could have been something browser developers would have come
to a consensus on, especially with the history of contact info snafus
as an example.  It's not an enormous technical challenge.  Maybe it's
simply a stubborn battle of IE-style one-per-file "favorites" vs. other
all-in-one-file (HTML, XML) formats?

Sorry for getting carried away here... next time I'll look for a more
appropriate place to vent those frustrations.

-sjk