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Considering the web is fundamentally about links, and that surfing constantly takes us far afield, why don’t our bookmarks help us more with this problem? Typically a bookmark is simply a URL and a title. Why can’t a bookmark also include the chain of referrers (the history stack) that led up to it? Wouldn’t that be valuable contextual information?
Original article: Bookmarks with referrers
Mozwho at mozdev offers a library of code (see cvs:/src/sextant) for tracking this information.
Alas, Mozilla only commits known attributes to the bookmarks.html. A relatively simple modification to Mozilla could enable one to commit whatever information one wanted to the bookmarks.
It is a good idea, see more context at:
When do user’s want to classify bookmarks? and
graph layout algorithms for browser histories
In fact, Firebird (0.6.1) already lets you set a referrer for each bookmark. This information isn’t gathered automatically, though, and it only stores one referrer, not a chain.
Posted by: Jordan on September 12, 2003 05:24 AMNote also that this could be done even more fully using a proxy like AgentFrank.
Posted by: Danny on September 16, 2003 01:59 PM