Re: eww and bookmarks

[T.V Raman]

Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden> writes:

Here is a slightly different perspective --- as someone who pretty much
does everything Web from emacs --- and have done so for a long time,
especially during the dark years when W3 was moribund and EWW did not
exist, I got used to using org-capture for managing bookmarks. It has
some of its own  advantages and encourages a slightly different workflow
 -- especially if one is already using org-capture to quickly remember
 ideas and organize them later.> Matthias Meulien <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > How should the bookmarks behave?  Should they be exact counterparts
>> > of eww bookmarks?
>>
>> I went through what eww info manual says on bookmarks and used those
>> bookmarks once to understand what is the provided feature; I can't
>> find anything not available from standard bookmarks. Can you give
>> details on what would be lost if eww used bookmarks.el?
>
> I don't think anything would be lost.  My setup is very different (I'm
> saving Internet-related bookmarks in firefox and consult them from
> Emacs), so I want to find out what a behavior users expect/prefer.
>
>> > Should they be linked to eww, or should it be possible to open them
>> > also with another browser (e.g. w3m).
>>
>> May be use `browse-url-default-browser`, but it's a different
>> discussion IMOH; The current need is to make the user life simpler
>> with a single place to search their bookmarks
>
> Yes, but we need to specify some handler for the bookmarks, so it's
> something to decide now.
>
>> > Finally, what should I specify as `defaults' list for the name
>> > suggestions available when you are prompted for a name for a new
>> > bookmark?  Just the url?
>>
>> An HTML document may have a "title" element; Isn't it possible to use
>> the value of that element when available? And the URL otherwise.
>
> I'll have a look.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael.
>

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