.Mac Bookmarks synch with Omniweb

[Tom Ritch]

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.

Cocoa encourages Object Oriented programming, and OW and Safari are 
Cocoa apps.  If Safari bookmarks are objects and OW bookmarks' extra 
features are extensions that object structure, OW bookmarks should 
inherit all Safari bookmark methods.  Hopefully this would include .mac 
synching ability.   Problem is, OW predates Safari and thus its 
original code cannot be derived from Safari data structures.  
Conversion of OW bookmarks to be based on Safari might solve this 
problem and enhance future compatibility and extensibility, similar to 
conversion to Safari's render engine.  Rather than messy, the long term 
result could be very elegant, I think.

Tom