Wherein the author cautions ASPs that they really ought to offer one-click backups for their customers. I got here via a link to
Favorites::Convert in my referer logs. The combination of navel-gazing and the topic at hand made me think that bookmark-ish files would make an interesting distribution format for weblogs. If I were
the prototypical neurosurgeon that Cameron wrote about a thousand years ago, I think it would be pretty cool to download a neurosurgery archive and simply add it to my bookmarks collection and get on with the day. It is, I think, the only time I've ever seen the merit in Microsoft's decision to use filesystem based bookmarks, rather than a single text file, because I can add and remove items in discreet actions without doing anything programatically and/or offering up my bookmarks for third-party viewing. On the other hand, since there is an
XML-RPC client for Mozilla you could conceivably offer a similar service, using XUL(?), a la
Meerkat. Eeen-teresting....