.Mac Bookmarks synch with Omniweb

[Matt Rehder]

I was going to post something about wanting OW 5 to somehow sync with 
the Safari bookmark file, but then after I thought about it wouldn't be 
very beneficial to  the OmniGroup.  This can be done now with something 
like Bookit.  You can sync your OW bookmarks and your Safari bookmarks, 
then you can use your OW bookmarks with .mac synching.  When you make 
changes to the .mac bookmarks you'll have to re-sync and visa versa if 
you make changes to your OW bookmarks.

I think a polished web based bookmark system would make me happier.  
Having a unified file to use between multiple computers makes it easy 
to keep track of updated bookmarks.

In any case, the .mac bookmark synching and .mac bookmarks are nice 
features.

-matt

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Scott J. Kramer wrote:

> --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
>
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