JTK wrote:
> I don't want to put anything in it. Well, "History", but I'm sure that's RSN,
> right?
No, it's Been There, Done That, Got the T-Shirt. There's already a history
sidebar now.
> Yay. Tell me Savior, how much XUL or Javascript or whatever do I have to
> write to put something in there?
Depends on what you want in there. There are already a lot of things that other
people have written to go there already. You don't need to learn XUL for it
anyway, unless you were really getting some fancy stuff together. Just a little
XML, really.
> Two words Jesus: Nobody cares about some stupid 'sidebar' that they're never
> going to be able to figure out how to "add stuff to", and yet I'm sure takes
> up a few MB and a few seconds on startup anyway.
Nope. And it's incredibly easy to add things to it. Try it and see.
> Bookmarks and History. What else do you got that makes any sense to put over
> there, and why isn't it already there?
NS6.x can plug AIM in there (IIRC). You can access their webmail via the sidebar
too. There's a way to get it into Mozilla to as well, with a dash of work. I'm
trying to get a very simple method together, so maybe I can boil it down to
no-work...
> Wait. This is essentially Netscape's idea of "Channels", isn't it? Wow, yer
> like four years late and a few bucks short there guys. MS tried that and
> chucked it around, jeez, it's been so long ago that even I can't remember... I
> suppose that's why History* is repeating itself.
Actually, NS4 had channels before IE did. Remember Netcaster? That came before
Active Desktop. Yeah, it sucked. The Sidebar is a better implementation. It's
similar to the Slashboxes on Slashdot, that type of thing.
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