Bad Mozilla, Bad.

Every so often I start to look into a problem I have with my Mozilla bookmarks. Between the number of computers operating systems I use at work and at home, I ended up with maybe 4-6 separate copies of my Mozilla bookmarks. I keep hoping that someone would write some sort of plug in that would help me synchronize all the differences, but so far nothing. So the other day I decided that I could write a simple Java application to do the job. I thought this would be easy, there are alot of XML parsing libraries that should make quick work of the bulk of the processing. Although I remembered that Netscape Navigator's bookmarks file was HTML, complete with unclosed elements I assumed that this was one thing they would fix with Mozilla. Make the bookmarks file well formed XML. Bzzzt. Sorry. You lose. It doesn't appear to. Dang! This is looking like something more than a quick hack. Oh well, guess I better just keep googling.

(2004-09-27 17:21:12.0) Comments [3] // Permalink