> "Deniz Dogan" <[email protected]> writes: > >> 2009/1/5 Daniel Rebelo de Oliveira <[email protected]>: >>> Sounds reasonable, are you removing everything, including "google"? >> >> I can't answer for everybody, but I think that was what we agreed on >> and as far as I can see, if we start removing some default webjumps, >> we might as well remove every single one, for plain consistency. >> >> Deniz > > I completely agree :)
Some of the webjumps like google and wikipedia are actually OpenSearch xml files rather than "webjumps" as such. These files were copied from Firefox, and as far as I know, there is no easy web repository where one can go to get them. So for the time being, we are stuck with at least distributing these webjumps with conkeror. Another example of webjumps which conkeror will include for the foreseeable future is the wikipedia-webjumps module, which simply involves so much javascript code that it is easier to include it than to put it on the wiki (but enabling it does involve some code in the rc). However, for the simple webjumps, I would like to get basically all of them moved to the wiki. The basic rationale is.. - it is typically more efficient to simply go to one place to find the webjumps you actually want, rather than having to determine which ones are and which are not already included conkeror (by fishing through source code). - it reduces the sense of playing favorites with certain companies, and conversely the need to have an ever-expanding set of included webjumps out of a sense of fairness (if we have youtube, does that mean we should also have joost and hulu? let's not go there) - hopefully, having the webjumps on the wiki will spur users' interest in writing improved versions of those webjumps, with nice features like site-specific completions. (see the magick-options webjump for my favorite example of such) On a sad note, Sheldon Brown passed away quite some time ago, and as such his website, while entertaining, is not an up-to-date source of information about bicycling. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
