[dba-Tech] I have a dream

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 09:11:30 CDT 2014


I know, that's a cheesy subject title, but while less ambitious than M.L.
King's dream, I still think it's worth a moment's attention.

First of all, to bring it to fruition, I need to learn something about how
to write an add-in for FireFox and Google. Then I need to build it and
release it for free to anyone who suffers the same problem as I.

Here's the notion: groups of web pages, loaded automatically with a single
click on the new "Groups" button. For example (and not that you need
subscribe to my groups -- the whole point is that you create your own
groups. But let's stick with mine, just as an example:

Group 1: News
nytimes.com
torontostar.com
theregister.co.uk

Group 2: Coding
accessD at databaseadvisors.com
dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
alphasoftware.com

Group 3: Literature
nybooks.com
wikipedia.com

etc.

The point is, I want to replace my bookmarks toolbar with these sets of
pages, so that with one click I discard the current set and load a
predefined set of pages all at once. And I don't think I'm the only person
in the world to wish this were possible.

What language do I achieve this in? Javascript? HTML 5? I don't know, so
your advice would be helpful.

-- 
Arthur


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