Hi, My name is Andrew and I am hoping to develop an idea that I have been bouncing around for a few weeks. Any feedback would be great to help me finish up and fine tune my proposal.
I believe that traditional local bookmarks are a thing of the past and that we should move towards having all users use hosted bookmarking. To move towards this goal, my idea is to implement Google Bookmarks and Delicious Bookmarks directly into chrome in a manner that is essentially invisible to the user. The first thing that comes to mind would be to wait for extension support to be up and running, and create an extension that helps integrate these hosted bookmarks sites. However, in keeping with chromes clean and simple user experience, I believe that full browser integration at the source level will allow hosted bookmarks to fit into users' workflow and simplify the process. When clicking the Star (bookmark this page) button, the same window would pop up, except it would have an extra field for tagging. This would then use the APIs to create those bookmarks. A special tag (ex. bookmarkBar) would be given to all bookmarks that should be visible in the bookmark bar, and this would appear exactly as normal. The "Other bookmarks" would work the same as normal, grabbing from the correct hosted service. All other areas, such as "manage bookmarks" would remain as simple and unchanged as possible from the users perspective. I believe that by allowing a user to choose local, google, or delicious bookmarks in a simple integrated manner will bring the ease of use and simplicty of local bookmarks with the power of hosted bookmarks. sorry if I double posted this --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
