Posted by WD10 on 08/29/05 11:40

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
news:deuddr$su4$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
> __/ ["WD10" <.>] on Monday 29 August 2005 08:03 \__
>
>> I just downloaded Horde but it's going to take a while to figure out. It
>> looks great though...
>
>
> Here are some old screenshot that I have lying around:
>
> http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/horde.jpg
>
> Here is the nice initiative at getting an AJAX-enabled feed reader:
>
> http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/500.jpg


That looks great. I hope I have enough time tomorrow to install it.


>> I have some ideas about what the perfect browser should be (in addition
>> to
>> the web development tools--BTW, have you seen the codetch extension?
>> http://www.codetch.com/. This is going to be one of the best
>> extensions).
>
>
> It looks very promising. I will wait until I get a nod from someone who
> uses
> it.

The guy who is working on it has this list of features he is adding:

* FTP
* Project/Site manager
* File type association manager
* Extensible editor system
* Syntax Highliter (help pls!)
* Photoshop-like color picker
* CSS manager/editor
* Code snippet insertion
* HTML insertion dialogues
* Find and Replace
(http://www.zachcarter.info/)

I think that it is going to be great.


>> It should also allow saving and
>> organizing the Web content -- automatically generating bibliographies and
>> reports.
>
>
> Web technologies are the main thing that currently keep me ahead of my
> superordinates so I look forward to such developments, which the older
> generation will fail to grasp or master.

:)

>> I've only used the trial version of Net Snippets becuase it costs $130.
>> If a browser is supposed to be the tool to interact with the Web, why not
>> make
>> it more functional?
>
>
> Because not enough people require it at present. I see the way my parents
> handle the browser. Some would rather pay, become ignorant as to what's
> under the hood and become dependent on a product.
>
> Am I bitter? No. They peril themselves. But sometimes my family and
> friends
> peril themselves and that's when I get a taste of it too...

But what about schools and universities? When I was a kid we had to take a
class every year on how to use the library system to look up books. It's
2005 now. Every kid should have a class every year on how to use the
Internet for research--and everyone should have a free tool to use for that
purpose (a browser that can organize Web information). A browser with those
features integrated would be perfect and the next generation would
understand how to use it. I wonder how difficult it would be to write a
Firefox extension that does what Net Snippets does. If I had enough free
time I would look into it...


>> There is a Firefox extension called Scrapbook, which
>> is
>> a good start, but it should go beyond that. Saving web pages to random
>> folders with CTRL-S is too primitive... :S
>
> I personally use grabbers a lot. In fact, I get all my music without _any_
> manual intervention. A grabber spiders using HTTP overnight and gets me
> the
> latest stuff, which resides on Web servers, i.e. people's Web sites (no
> P2P
> involved). This makes me merely one who downloads files, so I'm clean!

I wish I could write that kind of stuff :)
Does it find good music?

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