David E. Ross wrote:
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.
This is just what i said ...
A well organized hierarchy is to have the info in only *one* place.
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