On 11/15/07, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2007, at 6:40 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > > > > > On Nov 14, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> > >> On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at 09:44AM, "Alexander H. > >> Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> *With searches, it's clear what can and can't be searched. With Web, > >>> it's not (there's also no Help button in the URL bar). Some default > >>> bookmarks or a homepage setting (Google Scholar?) might be one > >>> way of > >>> dealing with this. > >> > >> You mean it's not clear what sites can be scraped? You can search > >> anything you want, since it's just a web page. The lack of help is > >> a bug...we're waiting for someone to fix it ;). > > > > Well, true, it might be useful if something were included somewhere > > about what kinds of sites do work (i.e., which site-scrapers already > > exist) > > > > BTW, clicking on a PDF link in Google Scholar (and presumably > > elsewhere) loads it quite nicely in the window, but then tells me that > > it "Failed to read HTML string from document." In Leopard, there's a > > nice floaty window that allows you to open it in Preview, from which > > you can drag it back into BibDesk... but it would be nice to have an > > option to attach the PDF as a local-url when it's imported. > > > > -A > > That would be impossible. there is no item to link the PDF to. Items > that are not imported yet are not editable (and that won't change). >
Just a thought about this - if a user wants to edit an item that isn't imported yet, wouldn't it be safe to assume that they will want to import that item? So this means that once a user changes an item, we just import it for them. Probably there would have to be a notice sheet that explains this (assuming you could choose to not show that notice again). Comments on that idea? I understand it's some work, and the current behavior is easily understood, so I wouldn't fight for it, but it's come up before... -mike -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
