338544 - Add metadata of pages to bookmarks (keywords etc.)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Girschick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060501 Camino/1.2+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060501 Camino/1.2+

It seems to obvious I wonder why no one has thought about it before:

When a bookmark is added it might be an idea to optionally add the meta-tags (at least keywords) of that page to the newly created bookmark. This would make searching in bookmarks much more useful.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Bookmark a page containing keywords

Actual Results:  
bookmark with empty keywords is created

Expected Results:  
keywords of meta tags of the bookmarked page are added to the newly created bookmark

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167931 for HTML meta tags.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I don't think we want to do this at all.

1) Web page keywords are metadata; bookmark keywords are a special, one-word shortcut for accessing that bookmark.

2) Web page metadata is often missing or totally bogus (designed to improve search engine results) and would provide limited value to users filling up their bookmark description fields.  Users would likely wonder how it got there as well, so we shouldn't fill it automatically, and it's not an interesting/useful enough option to expose a UI for.

Suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Well said. I completely agree with Smokey's comment 1.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

What Sam and Smokey said. Camino's "keyword" property has absolutely NOTHING to do with the page itself.

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Comment 4

[Martin Girschick]

I agree that both keyword entries have nothing to do with each other and I (sadly) have to acknowledge the fact that keyword entries often contain rubbish.

Still I think there should be a way to improve search within bookmarks, so if anyone comes up with a better idea to capture the "keywords" of a page...

Another questions arises: Is "keyword" the right word for Camino's feature?

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

If you have other concerns over Camino's use of keywords, please file new bugs for *each* issue.