On 5/4/05, Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seth Russell wrote: > > >Actually this is a problem that is worth solving. One would have > >wanted the framers of the web to have designed out all of these > >idiosyncratic differences in URIs .. oh well, here we are. > > > >I wonder if there is some quick way to form a unique hash of the > >actual content at the time of bookmarking and use that as the unique > >id, rather than the URL. > > > > > If the data associated with a linked page were static that might be a > solution, however little data is truly static - aside from the address, > so my inclination would be against that solution.
Well when someone bookmarks a page, imho, they are bookmarking the content that they see on the page today, not the content that may be there tomorrow. Which intorduces the idea of a cache of what was seen at the time of the mark. And perhaps we are talkin about two different actions: mark content, and mark URI. Seth Russell http://bozofaust.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
