newtab-bookmarks

Chrome extension replacing the default startpage with your bookmarks.

Features (done)

• Indexing page text to better search bookmarks ( curl/jqeury-get, cached locally, throttle the process..., output the status in the footer(indexing websites 14/268 ))
• Use a bookmark model (OOP)
• Persist the bookmark collection locally (localStorage)
• Website thumbnail: Integrate an ugly API service (easy solution)
• search function: (case insensitive search in url + title + body)
• Add domain filters (See all links from a given site)
• properly handle the search field events (keyup, focus, blur)
• compile a favicon main colors (based on domain names)
• Lazy load thumb images
• Save UI preference in a persistent model (zoom, counts, viewMode)
• Import from delicious user feed (importer)
• use main UI object to handle properly the interface controls
• Decent list/grid design (it's ugly)
• better search filter function (so the DOM repaint only once)
• ping the tile server for all images that will be required one day (so the server has time to fetch the website thumb, Ignore the response: save bandwith)
• Focus bug with the search field... (seems ok now)
• comparator filter method of the grid (caching of jquery objects to hide/show)
• UI: active state for type and folders. search as well??

TODO

• speed up attaching using a BIG html STR to append.
• Add a non-active state to the logo (when we activate other filters)
• better handle duplicates, >> use a middle "addUrl function avoind adding existing URL?"
• UI: create modals to link Twitter/Delicious/Facebook (and also add some instructions, and options settings...)
• BUG: the collection count sometimes double up in the Title bar...
• Facebook auth: fire/listen an event when we retrive the Token! (so no refresh is required)
• FB import: show status in an allert at the bottom, especially when it's completed>> 231 websites imported from facebook sucessfully!
• Bug with the parsing of Facebook page's website URL (we need to separate multilnes, multi-urls better... on spaces we split, then we with trim??)
• In the site model, code all the condition (set_content_type) to sort websites types (photo/videos/blogs/pdf/etc)
• bug with default viewmode (list/grid)
• Delete feature for Browser bookmarks (and actually delete it from the browser, maybe a confirm dialog before?)
• Add Pinboard import (Exact same syntax than delicious API): http://feeds.pinboard.in/json/u:bob/?count=5000
• Grid float bug: why do some elements push the next row, and break the grid pattern?
• CSS for the alerts in the footer (thinner)
• make LIST actual links that we can ctrl click (no on click events...)
• Google Auth (and fetch ALL youtube favorites, and more...)
• UI tooltips: improve placement + color
• do the heavy stuff on the background-js page (fetching websites, importing facebook / twitter / delicious links)
• add better filter controle (and search within, currently, the search overrides any filters...)
• find a way to cache thumb images (but only once the tile-server send a good image, not the placeholder)
• z-index bug between the URL and the menus:buggy...
• re(set) the custom style on window resize... throttled
• shadow 1px black shadow on the cog icon.
• check the count of Chrome bookmarks (or delicious), to make sure we got em all on file. If not, import/delete the ones that aren't there already.
• Url classifications (ie. a person website, a media, an open source-projet). Is Open Calay a good engine???
• add a x icon to the search
• bt search: keep the focus on the input. (now it blurs it)
• Import URls from Freebase database
• Thumbnail server (to replace the crappy APIs?)
• Thumb server: mirror lots of subdomains, so we can max out the number of concurent download/pings
• thumb server ping: make this task happen in the background.js.
• Sync the bookmarks to a server (so we know how many users has bookmarked the same sites)
• Backend (auth, sync, import favs from github, facebook, etc)
• Code clean: Make modular importer objects for the different services.
• Feature idea: pin website (for speedial-like feature)
• discovery options (website suggestions?)

DMOZ data structure

We have an output JSON from DMOZ with 1gb of these records (one per line):

{"topic": "Top/Arts/Animation/Anime/Fandom/Fan_Subtitled/Web_Rings", "d:Description": "Open to actively trading website owners.", "d:Title": "The Fansub Traders Web Ring", "url": "http://d.webring.com/hub?index&ring=fansub_traders"}

Liscence

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