Rufus wrote:
> Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
>> Rufus wrote:
>>>
>>> I must import/export Bookmarks files at least twice a week - to share
>>> them between installs on different machines (my iPad in particular -
>>> Safari for iPad has finally been enhanced with the features I want to
>>> make it usable), and I even edit sets to pass to friends over e-mail as
>>> collections of links.  Very, *very* handy once you learn what you can do
>>> with that file.
>>
>> If "Firefox Home" is available for the iPad, you can use that +
>> SeaMonkey Sync instead of manual export ;-)
>>
> 
> Again, no joy.  It looks optimized for iPhone - which means I'd have to
> use the iPad built in 2X zoom and live with crappy display in my
> browser.  It also looks like a "note taker" and not really a browser.
> Plus I would never use Firefox in lieu of SM...I'd use Safari.  Opera
> Mini would probably be more to my liking, but then I'd be in the same
> boat as I am now.

I know this was said elsewhere, but Firefox Home is not a browser and is
merely a program for syncing the Browser Data between your browser and
your iOS device. There is work being done on a tablet version of it
iirc, fwiw.

Regarding your "cloud service" concerns, I ask why? and provide a few
forethought reasons why you may not need to worry:
* Sync data is encrypted on your client before any data is sent to the
server, using a key that the server has no knowledge of. -- thus even
someone who could GET your data off the server itself can't do anything
with it, except you.
*If that still bothers you, you have the option of setting up your own
sync server and pointing SeaMonkey and your other sync devices at that
server, so your data remains only in your possession.

> Surprised though...given the SM team's outrage and upset at my vigorous
> requests for an iOS version of SM I expected I'd never see any such
> product for iOS.  But much as I figured, it *can* and *has* been done,
> or at least started - kudos to the Firefox team!  Hope they finish the
> job and put out an iPad optimized version.

Overall we would love to have the manpower to do a mobile offering, the
fact though is that we don't.

All that said if import/export works for you and you like the added
work, no problem... I just don't recommend it as a common practice, nor
do I plan to approve any work to make it such.

-- 
~Justin Wood (Callek)
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