"universal" bookmarks? [Re: One thing I'd love to see "in the box"]

[Scott J. Kramer]

--On Thursday, January 1, 2004 19:52 -0500 "Jonathan A. Duke" 
<lists at dukedesktop.com> wrote:

> I'd love to see a utility that allows bookmark synchronization between
> the big 5-OW, Safari, IE (aging but still prints everything), Camino, &
> Netscape.
>
> I've got bookmarks scattered everywhere...and the existing utilities that
> offer synchronization don't work well (issues with reading formats, etc.)
> or force you to use them as the "launch pad".  What I'd like is to have
> the exact same set of bookmarks in every browser (whether that's manually
> done or can be scheduled).

Isn't that the Holy Grail of bookmark management, analogous to getting
cross-application/platform contact database synchronization working
properly? ;-)

Main problem I see is there are too many "standards" for bookmark files so
sharing/synchronizing becomes a complicated mess.

A "universal" bookmark standard seems long overdue.  Maybe browsers using
XML rather than HTML are increasing the possibility for improvement?

-sjk