Comments on: Unsyncable http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/04/unsyncable/ Sci-fi, comics, humor, photos...it's all fair game. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:03:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kelson http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/04/unsyncable/#comment-29947 Kelson Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:41:18 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/04/unsyncable/#comment-29947 I meant pulling up the actual del.icio.us web page. It always takes several seconds, which is longer than just going to the toolbar. (It's worse on Opera. 9.x on Linux just chokes on a few sites, including del.icio.us and Digg, pausing for 15 seconds or more before anything is responsive. Fortunately, it looks like 9.5 has fixed whatever was causing it.) I actually wrote most of this post over a year ago, before the current del.icio.us extension was available, but never got around to posting it because I wanted to expand it. Then when I wrote my post about Opera 9.5, I realized I wanted to link to this one... but hadn't posted it yet! I should've done some more editing. Unfortunately, del.icio.us integration on browsers other than Firefox is fairly limited. The bookmarklets for Opera and Safari, and the extension for IE, just open (and pre-fill) the appropriate page on the website. So for now it's a solution for Firefox, or for Firefox and Flock, but still doesn't solve the Firefox+Opera+Safari problem. I meant pulling up the actual del.icio.us web page. It always takes several seconds, which is longer than just going to the toolbar. (It’s worse on Opera. 9.x on Linux just chokes on a few sites, including del.icio.us and Digg, pausing for 15 seconds or more before anything is responsive. Fortunately, it looks like 9.5 has fixed whatever was causing it.)

I actually wrote most of this post over a year ago, before the current del.icio.us extension was available, but never got around to posting it because I wanted to expand it. Then when I wrote my post about Opera 9.5, I realized I wanted to link to this one… but hadn’t posted it yet! I should’ve done some more editing.

Unfortunately, del.icio.us integration on browsers other than Firefox is fairly limited. The bookmarklets for Opera and Safari, and the extension for IE, just open (and pre-fill) the appropriate page on the website.

So for now it’s a solution for Firefox, or for Firefox and Flock, but still doesn’t solve the Firefox+Opera+Safari problem.

]]> By: Andrea http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/04/unsyncable/#comment-29938 Andrea Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:04:58 +0000 http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/04/unsyncable/#comment-29938 I'm not sure what you mean by "web apps have a certain amount of delay that doesn’t work for the most frequently-accessed sites" - I use the delicious as my bookmarks extension in firefox and haven't found any delay; the minute I tag something, it's there. Or if you mean you have to wait for the menu item or sidebar to open, I use the bookmarks toolbar showing with my favorite tags (part of the extension). I don't have other computers/systems, but I like it b/c I can give multiple tags to a bookmark and it's backed up if my ff goes kablooey. And I just learned how to use shortcuts for certain common bookmarks on delicious (tag it shortcut:whatever). I don't know how it's integrated with other browsers, but I've found it sure beats the hell out of regular bookmarks. I’m not sure what you mean by “web apps have a certain amount of delay that doesn’t work for the most frequently-accessed sites” – I use the delicious as my bookmarks extension in firefox and haven’t found any delay; the minute I tag something, it’s there. Or if you mean you have to wait for the menu item or sidebar to open, I use the bookmarks toolbar showing with my favorite tags (part of the extension). I don’t have other computers/systems, but I like it b/c I can give multiple tags to a bookmark and it’s backed up if my ff goes kablooey. And I just learned how to use shortcuts for certain common bookmarks on delicious (tag it shortcut:whatever). I don’t know how it’s integrated with other browsers, but I’ve found it sure beats the hell out of regular bookmarks.

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