On 4/10/06, Mike Pinkerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can do this today. No?

Indeed it is! However since there are many students use Camino
(hopefully many more), the Bookmark Manager should be capable of
storing all the relevant information needed to produce a citation.
This problem was noted in another thread "saving URL".

This style guide from the University of Alberta
< http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm >

seems state things clearly (this one based on the Chicago Style Guidelines):
<http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm#Chicago >

A Newspaper Article

Avery, B. (2000, February 9). Oil Prices likely to remain high:
Non-OPEC suppliers
      unable to challenge cartel. The EdmontonJournal. Retrieved
February 9, 2000,
      from http://www.edmontonjournal.com/

A Web Document

American Psychological Association. (2001). Electronic references. Retrieved
     November 1, 2001, from http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Currently Camino keeps Date Last Visited, and number of times visited.
These are interesting statistics, but irrelevant for citation
purposes. Adding several other date and time related fields is what I
am suggesting. The number of times I've visited a page is interesting
but not essential (to me) and I am definitely  not interested in a my
top 10 (though others may be).

Users should be able to extract all the information needed to produce
a correctly formatted citation from the Bookmark Manager without the
need of a third party extension. Date retrieved is a necessity as it
goes to the state of the document on a certain date and time. Even if
the link becomes broken, knowing that is was there, and being able to
document it is essential.

For instance, I am currently trying to find information on a
particular event in Apple/Microsoft history which seems to have
completely disappeared. Had I thought to save a link to that document,
dead or not, I would have at least some information  as to where the
information was circa 1998. I am collecting far more source material
that I can use, however, while the hunt continues, I am amassing even
more bookmarked sites of interest.

I desperately need to be able to scale the fonts to an easily readable
size. If this is not feasible then could the font size be magnified as
you move line by line down the list.

I have a lot of Bookmarks and desperately need better ways of managing
these inside my browser. I need to cull the list but currently its
very difficult because of basic things like font size (everywhere else
in the OS X Finder, this is scalable)

The Groups side panel should be able to be hidden if the user wishes.
Personally I find it of limited use. Others may find this panel
indispensable, but what I am saying is that the user should have that
choice.

As I started writing the posts about Bookmarks, I have realised just
how frustrated I have been in general with how all browsers handle
Bookmarks! A good Bookmark manager could save hours of searching.

Cheers,
David



--
David Fedoruk
B.Mus. UBC,1986
Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003


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