130459 - [RFE] ability to import bookmarks (Hotlist) from Mac browser iCab

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[phil]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031106

I am unable to import the bookmark file ("Hotlist") from the Macintosh browser
iCab.  When I ask Mozilla to "import bookmarks", it simply does nothing at all
-- sits there for a moment, looks blank, and otherwise, nothing.  By contrast,
it has no trouble importing IE 5's favorites, nor Netscape's bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Find the Hotlist from a working copy of iCab.
2.  Attempt to import it using the Mozilla bookmark manager.
3.  Watch nothing happen!  ;-)

Actual Results:  There was no successful import, as always.

Expected Results:  It should've added my iCab bookmarks to the Mozilla bookmarks
list.

Here's the beginning of my iCab Hotlist, to give you an idea:

<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=X-MAC-SYSTEM">

<title>iCab Hotlist</title>
<h1>iCab Hotlist</h1>
<dl><p>
<dt><a HREF="http://cutthemullet.tripod.com/review.htm"
LAST_MODIFIED="986768253" UPDATE="813629440">Eyes That Can See in the Dark</a>
<dt><a
HREF="http://sm6.sitemeter.com/default.asp?action=stats&site=sm6cutthemullet"
UPDATE="813629440">Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker</a>
<dt><h3 FOLDED>Most often visited</h3>
<dl><p>
<dt><a HREF="http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/full_list.php3?which=top50"
LAST_MODIFIED="966488955" UPDATE="813629440">Portal listing - the top Portal
submissions of all time</a>

<dt><a HREF="http://www7.ewebcity.com/pinkfloyd/main.htm"
LASTUPDATE="1010260832" LAST_MODIFIED="1004159135" UPDATE="813629440"
SUBSCRIBE>Philippe Legault's page</a>

And the end of it:

<dt><a HREF="http://skepdic.com/begging.html" UPDATE="813629447">begging the
question - Skeptic's Dictionary</a>
</dl><p>

Comment 1

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

-> Future, not obliged to import iCab bookmarks files. Will take a patch. 

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

confirming RFE

Comment 3

[Joseph McLean]

The problem is the charset tag.  Mozilla's bookmarks are UTF-8, while iCab's
appear to be X-MAC-SYSTEM(?).

I opened a copy of iCab 2.7.1's hotlist.html file in a text editor, and changed
the last bit of the HTTP-EQUIV tag from this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=X-MAC-SYSTEM">

to this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Then the import worked fine.  I imported about a thousand bookmarks, and at
first blush I don't see any encoding errors at all.  

This RFE sounds easy to implement.  

-Joseph

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420