On Monday 17 July 2006 3:09 pm, Jonas Fonseca fonseca-at-diku.dk |ELinks_ML| wrote: > So here is my request to you: please, please, if you expect to be active > on this list while not subscribing, at least use the same email address > instead of (currently counting) three different ones so that I don't > have to accept 25 different email addresses just because you are a bit > paranoid or whatever you are. ;-) >
I'm really, really sorry about that. I really hope that the E-mail I use now is one you have encountered by now. If not, it's the one I've hoped to have settled on. Sneakemail is really awesome, but I obviously haven't integrated it's use too well into my E-mail client. I'll work on it and really watch out for the address used for an messages I send to this mailing list. > Now I deleted your wish (stupid me), but I recall that we talked on the > ELinks IRC channel about this. Bugzilla has some bugs touching on this > subject, letting scripts create dialogs. Currently Lua is the most > developed scripting interface when it comes to this. Partly, I think, > because there once was a bookmark interface scripted entirely in Lua. > > You request is very general, so maybe you could provide some more detail > regarding what you expect to use it for? What type of dialog/widgets do > you think would be useful to implement first? It could maybe help to > make someone interested in aiding your request. Okay, so my request for the this feature as a general solution was somewhat intentional, but I here's the application I was discussing on the IRC channel... a del.icio.us interface similar to the "extensions" available for Firefox and Konqueror, and also what's available through Javascript on the site itself. The is of some importance to me, because I think that del.icio.us has quite a bit of sustaining merits, and it's used by enough people that its utility isn't waning. I just prefer using the site as my central repository of links. It's possible to make a little bit of an interface to the del.icio.us site with Elinks as it is. A scripting "smart prefix" could be used to convert "del www.mysite.com" to "http://del.icio.us/tnks?url=www.mysite.com";, which would bring up a del.icio.us page to post the link. The greatest problem with this method is that the site employs a lot of Javascript to manage it's tag recommendations. Tag management is one of the more useful features of the site, and I'd really like Elinks to somehow support it. Del.icio.us has an API that allows for tag management. They send back some XML in reponse to a web query. This provides a nice opportunity to get around Elink's lack of Javascript support. However, I need the traditional widgets (menus, pulldowns, radio buttons, etc.) if I'm going to dynamically present to the user tags for selection the way del.icio.us does. I think the Javascript on the del.icio.us site well illustrates the functionality that I'm looking for. I recommend you set up a quick little account on the site if you don't already have one, and try posting a link to see this web interface. It would be easier than my trying to explain what it does in words. But I think if you offer widgets in general, I might even be in a position to improve upon the interface del.icio.us offers. I really don't have any exact requirements for these widgets. I don't even need "all" of them, just enough to allow for some nice interaction with the user. I don't know the internals of Elinks well enough to know whether it would be easier to expose widgets used by web forms, or widgets used by Elinks itself, or maybe they're both one in the same. Let me know if there's anything more I can help out with, or if there's any threads or bug reports I should read in particular (I haven't read anything specific yet). - Sukant _______________________________________________ elinks-dev mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-dev
