{"id":60,"date":"2005-11-10T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:13:06","slug":"bookmarks-in-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/bookmarks-in-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks in RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently become fascinated with the idea of using RSS to maintain a list of items rather than a feed of news or a log. If used in that way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\/\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/live-bookmarks\">live bookmarks<\/a> feature, all of a sudden, has a practical use. My website evolved from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030503035601\/http:\/\/members.rogers.com\/solon\/Netscape.html\">one links page<\/a>, that has now become my ilias.ca main page. I originally created a links page to help users in two ways:<br \/>\n&#8211; users wouldn&#8217;t have to go through the hassle of maintaining a list of help sites for Mozilla or Netscape.<br \/>\n&#8211; users wouldn&#8217;t have to clog up their bookmarks with help sites. They could bookmark one site, and use that as a gateway.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me &#8216;maintaining a set of bookmarks for others&#8217; is what Live Bookmarks is all about. You set up a Live Bookmark to &#8216;ilias.ca help sites&#8217;, and now all the sites appear in that Live Bookmark. Whenever I update a link, add a link, or remove a link, that change is reflected in your Live Bookmark.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I&#8217;ve created an RSS formatted file for that purpose. Mozilla Firefox users will see the <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/images\/screen-firefox-rss-icon.png\" alt=\"Live Bookmark icon\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\"\/>, when visiting the ilias.ca main page, and can click on it to create the Live Bookmark.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about the concept a little more and realized that if you store bookmarks in an RSS formatted file, you can use them on a customizable web portal, like Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/bin\/topic.py?topic=1592\">Personalized Home<\/a>. Supposedly, Internet Explorer 7 is supposed to have much greater RSS support. Maybe it would be possible to actually make Firefox and Internet Explorer use the same bookmarks RSS file. Oh the possibilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently become fascinated with the idea of using RSS to maintain a list of items rather than a feed of news or a log. If used in that way, Mozilla Firefox&#8216;s live bookmarks feature, all of a sudden, has&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/11\/bookmarks-in-rss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-iliasca","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}