On 1/11/11 12:55 AM, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> In Netscape's Navigator 4.x, there was a capability to set bookmark >> shortcuts. I could set a bookmark in one place within my bookmarks file >> and then set a pointer to that bookmark in another place within the same >> file. That pointer was a shortcut and was used as if it were a regular >> bookmark. If I changed the actual bookmark (e.g., if the URI changed), >> that change would be reflected in all the shortcuts. That way, I could >> file copies of a bookmark in several different folders in the file but >> would have to maintain only one instance of the bookmark. >> >> I think this capability disappeared in Mozilla Suite. Will it be >> restored in SaeMonkey 2.1? >> > > In a certain point of vue, a bookmark *is* a shortcut. > Why did you need a shorcut of a shortcut ? Duplicating the places where > you can jump to a site ?
For this discussion, "shortcut" does NOT mean an Internet shortcut as defined by Microsoft. Instead, it means a pseudo-bookmark in the bookmarks file that merely points to an actual bookmark in that same file. I'll give just three examples of how I want to use this, but I have many more. In my bookmarks, I have a folder named "creating Web sites"; it contains a sub-folder named "Font Selections". I also have a folder named "fonts". There are Web sites that relate both to selecting fonts for Web pages and to downloading fonts. I would like to bookmark those Web sites both in ["creating Web sites" > "Font Selections"] and in "fonts". In my bookmarks, I have a folder named "Weather". I also have a folder named "Nature, Science, and Technology". I would like to bookmark the Web site "Bad Meteorology" at <http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadMeteorology.html> in both folders. In my bookmarks, I have a folder named "$$$"; it contains a sub-folder named "taxes" with sub-sub-folders "Federal" and "California". I also have a folder named "Gov't, Politics, & the Law"; it contains sub-folders named "U. S. Govt" and "California". The "U. S. Govt" sub-folder contains a sub-sub-folder named "Executive". I want bookmarks to the IRS Web site at <http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/> both in ["$$$" > "taxes" > "Federal"] and in ["Gov't, Politics, & the Law" > "U. S. Govt" > "Executive"]. I want bookmarks to the Franchise Tax Board Web site at <http://www.ftb.ca.gov/> both in ["$$$" > "taxes" > "California"] and in ["Gov't, Politics, & the Law" > "California"]. I did this with Netscape Navigator 4.7. If a URI changed, I only had to change it in the actual bookmark; the change would also apply to its shortcuts. When I transitioned to Mozilla Suite, all my bookmark shortcuts were converted into actual bookmarks because the capability for shortcuts had been eliminated. Now, several years later, I still find occasional duplicate bookmarks that no longer have the same URI. I have approximately 1,000 bookmarks organized in over 120 folders, sub-folders, and sub-sub-folders. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
