Closed Bug 5871 Opened 26 years ago Closed 25 years ago

bookmarks.html needs to be I18n-savvy

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: RDF, defect, P3)

x86
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: waterson, Assigned: mozilla)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: DEPEND - Intl)

Currently using ASCII to serialize and read bookmarks.html. This needs to get fixed.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M6
Hi there Chris, Incidently, it just suddenly occured to me as I saw this bug in the lists for the 100th time, that this bug is *directly* related to the discussion we had about moving bookmarks.html to a new RDF format, while at the same time maintaining backwards compatibility with older tools that work on the old HTML format--see the e-mail that Erik van der Poel sent to us on this topic. Also, I seem to recall some additional ideas from somebody else (think it was arielb) on the Mozilla IRC for the bookmarks if they could in fact be migrated to a new RDF format... In particular, I believe he had an idea for enabling other user requested features like enabling/disabling certain browsing features (like Java) on a per-site basis, attaching such settings to the bookmarks. I like arielb's idea too, since it would meet user requests for this feature, which I'm willing to bet are made primarily because of stability concerns with specific Java applets found only on certain sites. Also, I see an even greater market potential here, too--I think, depending on how far Mozilla goes with this, this idea could also give Netscape something that could compete in the market with Microsoft Internet Explorer's "Security Zones" feature, which allows for exactly this kind of thing already... Only I think that the way arielb proposed to do it would be even better than Microsoft IE, since it would allow for even finer-grained control in this area than MS's Security Zones could, since doing it on a per-site basis seems to me a more fine-grained way of doing it than grouping the sites and making settings active or inactive on the entire group, as IE's Security Zones do.
Moved to M7 because of more important bugs.
Whiteboard: DEPEND - Intl
Blocks: 7228
Target Milestone: M7 → M8
Okay, I suck. I'm latering this to M8. I need to grovel through the 4.5 code and figure out how to do this.
Let us (I18N) know if you need help with the groveling.
Depends on: 9171
Target Milestone: M8 → M9
Add dependency on 9171, which is targeted to be fixed in M9.
Blocks: 11417
Move to M10.
Giving Robert the bookmarks love since I can't deliver.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Adding lyecies@netscape.com to cc list.
Target Milestone: M10 → M12
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
For 5.0, we now write out bookmark file in "UTF-8" encoding, along with: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> To support this, when reading in the bookmark file, we look to see if a META charset is specified and, if it is, we'll try and get a decoder for it to use when processing the rest of the file. Note: this is important for importing of IE Favorites on the Mac as well, as its just another HTML file. It looks like Mac IE does write out a META charset, which is nice.
QA Contact massive update.
verified: WinNT 2000070508
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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