Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
Rufus wrote:Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:Rufus wrote:I must import/export Bookmarks files at least twice a week - to share them between installs on different machines (my iPad in particular - Safari for iPad has finally been enhanced with the features I want to make it usable), and I even edit sets to pass to friends over e-mail as collections of links. Very, *very* handy once you learn what you can do with that file.If "Firefox Home" is available for the iPad, you can use that + SeaMonkey Sync instead of manual export ;-)Again, no joy. It looks optimized for iPhone - which means I'd have to use the iPad built in 2X zoom and live with crappy display in my browser. It also looks like a "note taker" and not really a browser. Plus I would never use Firefox in lieu of SM...I'd use Safari. Opera Mini would probably be more to my liking, but then I'd be in the same boat as I am now.I know this was said elsewhere, but Firefox Home is not a browser and is merely a program for syncing the Browser Data between your browser and your iOS device. There is work being done on a tablet version of it iirc, fwiw.
Yes...and I would *want* it to be a browser if I were going to use such a solution. And if it weren't that iOS Safari now serves my needs. And I already have a very simple built in way to synch my iPad as it is.
Regarding your "cloud service" concerns, I ask why? and provide a few forethought reasons why you may not need to worry: * Sync data is encrypted on your client before any data is sent to the server, using a key that the server has no knowledge of. -- thus even someone who could GET your data off the server itself can't do anything with it, except you. *If that still bothers you, you have the option of setting up your own sync server and pointing SeaMonkey and your other sync devices at that server, so your data remains only in your possession.
I don't like my information being stored external from my control - encrypted or not. I do my own backups, I still buy CDs, and I maintain all that is mine myself to the greatest extent that I can. Just my personal preference. I don't/won't use cloud anything, much other than internet radio.
Besides - when it comes to synching my iPad the capability is already built into my system as a Mac OS/iPad user, so a third party solution isn't really of any interest to me seeing as I already like the built in functionality I have - synching Safari to Safari directly.
Surprised though...given the SM team's outrage and upset at my vigorous requests for an iOS version of SM I expected I'd never see any such product for iOS. But much as I figured, it *can* and *has* been done, or at least started - kudos to the Firefox team! Hope they finish the job and put out an iPad optimized version.Overall we would love to have the manpower to do a mobile offering, the fact though is that we don't.
And that it's against your stated business aims/philosophy...but again, Apple itself has filled my desire, so for me it's moot now.
As an aside - I also use NewsTap on my iPad as a usenet reader, and really like it. Unless I had a way to synch SM Mail to NewsTap and maintain a closed loop with the suite, using something like Firefox Home again doesn't really fill the bill - I'd need a genuine SM synch that could address both Safari and NewsTap (and Mail.app, for that matter) before I'd be in the least interested in an add-on. It has to do something I can't do natively, or do it better than what I can do natively - Firefox Home doesn't fill that requirement for me.
All that said if import/export works for you and you like the added work, no problem... I just don't recommend it as a common practice, nor do I plan to approve any work to make it such.
It's not really "work"...I've been doing this since I discovered the ability nearly a decade ago. It's very easy and very straightforward - far more so than diddling with about:config...which people do regularly. Not to mention that it lets me interact with others for cross-platform interchange. It not really "work" - it's a very useful and handy feature.
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- Rufus
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