18213 - Offline browse To-Do List

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91832

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Zac Spitzer]

Among the features I would like to see very much is a to-do browse list.

When browsing offline and I click on a URL which isn't in the cache, mozilla
could pop up a message saying "<b>You are currently offline. Would you like to
store this URL in a to-do list?</b>"

The to do list could be incorporated as a side bar panel. This panel should be
editable, ie add and delete entries manually. It would nice to be able to have
one click access to open all to-do links in new browser window.

It has been suggested to combine pre loading with this feature, I think that is
overkill.

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I often find I want to do this, I think it would be excellent.

Comment 2

[leger]

Punting to don to put on his ever growing enhancements list :-)

Comment 3

[Paul MacQuiddy]

spam: moving qa contact on some bugs from paulmac to [e-mail]

Comment 4

[don]

Move to "Future" milestone.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

don, is Future applicable now that Offline features are being implemented now?

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

In this case I think future is still applicable because this is still nothin' 
more than an enhancement request.  It does seem to be a pretty good idea 
though, I'll play around with implementing it.  Anyone have any suggestions 
about the best way to store this URL list?  perhaps just update or write to a 
local HTML file every time a link is clicked on, and load that HTML file in the 
sidebar?  Also, where deep in networking code might I find out how to determine 
whether a page is stored in the cache or not?

Comment 7

[Chris McAfee]

back to MFuture, we can ship without this feature.
If someone wants to go do this, fine, that's what
MFuture is for.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

adding helpwanted kw in response to mcafee's comment. :-)

Comment 9

[gabriel]

Don't think you would need to determine whether a page was in the cache or not.
You just need to see whether you get an error loading the URL.Surely if you're
in offline mode, the only possible error you can get is if the page ain't there.
In fact, just do a search for 'Error loading URL'; add a line which says if
you're in offline mode, append the URL out to an html file.

Comment 10

[gabriel]

And in fact, there it is: nsBrowserInstance.cpp#1539

Comment 11

[gabriel]

Attachment: Outline of patch

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

reassigning to me, I'll take a look when I get back (from the dev meeting!)

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 4884548845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[David Krause]

WTF? 4884548845 was marked as dup?  Is this a bugzilla bug?

Comment 15

[David Krause]

*** Bug 48845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Jesse Ruderman]

Should users be able to sync this to-do list with handhelds (Palm, Visor, etc)?

Comment 17

[Blake Ross]

No time right now.

Comment 18

[Stephan Niemz]

There is a package called wwwoffle which seems to do what you want here.
The home page is http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ .
I think it would be great if this could be incorporated in Mozilla, especially
for Notebook users.

From the description:

While Online:
- Caching of pages that are viewed for later review.
- Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed.

While Offline:
- Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached.
- Selection of pages to download next time online
  - Using normal browser to follow links.
  - Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Control which pages can be requested when offline.
- Provides non-cached access to intranet servers.

Automated Download:
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages
  - Understands various types of pages
    - HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial).
  - Options to fetch different classes of objects
    - Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects.
- Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved.
- Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed.
- Recursive fetching
  - To specified depth.
  - On any host or limited to same server or same directory.
  - Chosen from command line or from browser.
  - Control over which links can be fetched recursively.

Comment 19

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 63664, "[RFE] Temporary Bookmarks".

Comment 20

[basic]

Should the links be in a bookmark list? Why not have the prompt open a File
Bookmarks default to a "To-Do List" folder? That way it can be access via the
bookmark sidebar panel.

Comment 21

[gabriel]

I think it would be better to keep the 'to do' sidebar separate. It would need
to load up the list from a file, and then delete entries in the file as they are
browsed. Other than that, it could work the same as the bookmarks sidebar.

In offline mode, if a URL is requested which isn't in the cache it needs to be
appended to the file. This should be controlled by a pref 'when in offline mode,
add entries to the to-do file'.

Comment 22

[basic]

I would think that a to-do list would be better served if it persisted rather
than automatically removed as one browse. On the other hand it would be handy to
have a way to empty this list when the user wants to. If the bookmark folder can
have a "empty folder" option. Currently this can be done by just deleting the
folder and recreating it.

Comment 23

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 111141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

[gabriel]

Now that we have tabbed browser, it would be possible to open up each to-do 
entry in its own tab.

Comment 25

[xyzzy]

Calendar has it's own concept of a to-do list, and it would be cool if we could
integrate with that idea.  It could solve the problem of where to put the UI,
and allow us to persist the data easily.

Comment 26

[Lasse Marøen]

Here are some ideas for this feature:

- context menu item for links: "add to list"
- drag and drop link into list
- button for "add all links on this page to list"
- possibility to "add list to history" to enable the use of back/forward buttons
to go through the list
- "mail list", opens a mail compose window with the list of urls in it
- file list as bookmarks
- save/open list
- open list in composer - creates an unordered list with links

Comment 27

[gabriel]

With all these suggestions, it sounds as if some kind of 'links manager' 
feature might be useful. You could then have a switch 'Follow links normally | 
add links I click on to links manager'. In offline mode, links could be added 
to the links manager automatically.

From the links manager, you could have options like 'save links to an html 
file, clear all links, open all links in browser, add all links from this page'.

The first time the links manager would be opened after starting Moz, it would 
contain all of the links from the previous session. This could be achieved by 
saving a 'links-manager.html' when you shut down, and reloading it when started.

What does everyone else think of this idea ?

Comment 28

[xyzzy]

gabriel,

Please read bug 91832.  I think this may be what you are after.

Comment 29

[basic]

remove self

Comment 30

[Rob North]

This bug is related to bug 45421.
As this is really a bells-and-whistle specialisation of 45421, maybe it should
depend on 45421.

Comment 31

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 157060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 32

[Jean]

<a href="http://www.wysigot.com/">Wysigot</a> (formerly ecatch) has provided
this feature in a very ergonomic manner for about 4 years. I think it is
somewhat based on MSIE. So maybe this "offline todo list" feature could be
provided as an extension ?

Anyway, I mark this bug as dependent on <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229741">the bug #229741 I just
entered in bugzilla</a> since in order to build the offline todo list UI, a
persistent (offline) repository for content would be needed. And such a
repository would be useful for more than the offline todo list feature.

Comment 33

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

[wow, it has a patch outline.]

should this bug 91832 be duped to or block by this bug?

Bug 63664

Comment 34

[Robert Kaiser]

bug 91832 is broader but includes this idea.