148777 - Web Assistant - notification system of site content update

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mehmet D. AKIN]

Adding functionality of a Web Assistant to Mozilla is a wonderful extra. Details
are in attachment (pdf, 7 pages).

Comment 1

[Mehmet D. AKIN]

Attachment: Web Assistant details

Here is the details. Drop me an email if you wabt to discuss anything about it.

Comment 2

[Mehmet D. AKIN]

Attachment: Web Assistant Details (pdf)

sorry, this is the correct one

Comment 3

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Can we have a brief summary of what this is about (as a comment, not as PDF),
please?

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> I can't fix this one

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

.

Comment 6

[Mehmet D. AKIN]

Actually the first part of the document is like a brief, you can start from there.
But I see, this is already assigned to "nobody". well, it is still a good idea
anyway, if you read and think about it.

Comment 7

[Neil Deakin]

What exactly are you proposing be added to Mozilla? Bookmarks already have the
capability to check for updates at some schedule. See the Schedule tab in a
bookmarks' properties.

Comment 8

[Mehmet D. AKIN]

Well, did you read the document?
Yes, bookmarks can tell whether "a site is updated or not" But what I propose is
a mechanism not only checks a site for updates, but also retrieve the updated
content itself! and also gives user to define content based alerts. This is far
beyond the bookmarks update checking features. It checks for sites for you
without visiting it, if something new, or something of your interest (using
alerts) it retrieves some portion of the content and link to site, and gives you
full control, you dont continuously check the site, therefore not loose time, or
you dont miss something of your interest just because you didnt visited the site
in the right time, it browses sites for you in the background, analyses them and
gives the results to you.

Comment 9

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Neil, bookmarks alone can not tell when a specific part of a page has updated. 
Consider the case of cnn.com.  It is continually updated.  If you just rely on
http to tell if the page has been modified, the notification will be meaningless.  

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

see bug 8648

Comment 11

[Mark Stier]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Neil, bookmarks alone can not tell when a specific part of a page has updated. 
> Consider the case of cnn.com.  It is continually updated.  If you just rely on
> http to tell if the page has been modified, the notification will be
meaningless.  

Right. How about integration of update notifications with RSS-feeds? Assign the
bookmark URL a RSS-feed and there you go. One could then choose the action that
will happen when clicking on the bookmark button: either go to the URL or
subsequently go to the new links provided be the RSS-feed. Neat, not?

Comment 12

[Mark Stier]

(In reply to comment #11)

Additionally, the context menu of that bookmark could open an internally
generated web page displaying the new headlines of the RSS-feed.

Comment 13

[Mark Stier]

(In reply to comment #12)

Or a RSS-feed could be represented as a special implementation of a bookmarks
folder with dynamic content consisting of Headlines as bookmark names and
Tooltips containing the short descriptions... one could skip through news just
by moving the mouse pointer over the RSS-feed bookmark folder :)

Comment 14

[Mehmet D. AKIN]

currently not suitable I guess.