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Bug 312221 - Include in bookmarks metadata from webpages
Include in bookmarks metadata from webpages
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Bookmarks
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks: 755378
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-01 10:27 UTC by Daniel Brodie
Modified: 2016-09-28 16:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Daniel Brodie 2005-08-01 10:27:02 UTC 
The idea was taken from here:
http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2005/08/01/intelligent-bookmarking-draft/
There are many things from there that epiphany could adobt, and many things that
arn't as problomatic in epiphany.

I just want to suggest one point from his article and that is saving the
website's metadata and then allow people to access it from the autocomplete.
While there are websites that abuse metadata, if you are willing to bookmark it
most of the chances are that the  metadata is sane (also editing the metadata
saved by the bookmark in the bookmark properties for the extreme case might be a
good idea).

Also, when bookmarking a site it could preselect the topics that look relevant
based on the metadata. (Ex. I have a pyhon and a memory topic, and I am
bookmarking a site that has python and memory in the metadata, then the bookmark
dialog will have those topic preselected. I deselect memory (since my memory
topic is about physical memory) and leave python preselected and bookmark it.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-01-12 16:33:41 UTC 
That looks like a slippery slope, with the websites telling you which topics your bookmark should have. Also, loads of websites have the same metadata for different pages. I think it's best to leave this sort of judgement to the user (I'm not even counting the problems with i18n where the metadata is in one language, and the interface and bookmark topics in another).
Comment 2 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-26 14:33:16 UTC 
NOTABUG?
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-12-27 13:00:40 UTC 
Providing new topic autocomplete options from the page meta data isn't such a crazy idea, IMHO. The user is still in charge of which topics get created.
Comment 4 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-27 19:50:33 UTC 
Maybe extracting the keywords of the site and suggesting them under the Topics entry like:

Topics: |__________|
/Suggested by page: sports, soccer, fcbarcelona /


Without selecting them, just a suggestion. This suggested topics would not be more than 3 or 4.

I don't like at all the idea of blindly trusting the metadata that a website can offer.
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-05-31 22:42:11 UTC 
Might be touched upon by the Epiphany SoC project.
Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2016-09-28 16:18:16 UTC 
I think we probably don't want this? Let's keep it simple?