On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 18:22 +0100, David Vevar wrote: > I contacted you not long ago about an "icon issue" regarding XBEL in > general and Konquerer in particular. > > I also contacted David Faure of KDE who implemented XBEL (well, almost > ;-)) for Konquerer bookmarks. After some exchanged messages (having in > mind that most of todays browsers tend to be fairly colourful ;-)) we > came to a conclusion that it would be a good thing to change (or extend) > XBEL a bit. We propose an icon repository at the end of XBEL document in > form of an <icons> element, something like this > > <icons> > <icon id="..." location="..."> base64-encoded data. </icon> > ... > </icons> > > To be more specific, <icon>s could point to external locations (web > URL's or local-machine repositories) and/or keep icon data inlined as, > say, base64-encoded binary (Mozilla(s) already have that), containing > images in various formats (jpegs, gifs, pngs), ico files, maybe even > something more exotic (in that case we'd also need to put a content-type > in there somewhere). > > Bookmarks could then refer to these icons (through their ids) with some > referrer attribute. > > The point of all this is that having such a format could result in a > compact (one XBEL file) bookmark repository. > > I'd be glad to leave the details of specification to you. What I need to > know is whether you'd even consider it, and if so, how soon can we > expect the actual specification?
This sounds well enough, but I think it should be a matter for extension. Just for starters, a Mozilla-like browser might prefer to use a data scheme URL. Another might prefer to use entities, etc. I think XBEL should be as simple as possible, and icons feel too much like crossing the line. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/amara.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Manage XML collections with XAPI - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xapi.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html Packaging XSLT lookup tables as EXSLT functions - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook2.html _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
