Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 22, 2005 08:59 AM
I have to ask, has there been any forethought as to when these various web services undoubtedly change their protocol without consideration to such a highly integrated web browser?
None of the protocols for del.icio.us, flickr, etc, are set in stone - it's likely that they will never be. Are we going to see a patch release for this software each time someone changes their protocol? This doesn't seem like something a small dev team could keep up on, much less the users of the software.
I don't want to be bitter and cynical, but it just seems that perhaps this isn't the best idea. The effort could probably be more effective in creating mozilla extensions with perhaps an "extension to tie them together" which could benefit browsers by themselves, or as a unified unit. Not only does this give the user far more benefit from a customization perspective, but it allows each component to be developed independently, eliminating the need to update a monolithic piece of software each time something extremely minor changes.
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Re:Thanks for the review
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 22, 2005 08:59 AMNone of the protocols for del.icio.us, flickr, etc, are set in stone - it's likely that they will never be. Are we going to see a patch release for this software each time someone changes their protocol? This doesn't seem like something a small dev team could keep up on, much less the users of the software.
I don't want to be bitter and cynical, but it just seems that perhaps this isn't the best idea. The effort could probably be more effective in creating mozilla extensions with perhaps an "extension to tie them together" which could benefit browsers by themselves, or as a unified unit. Not only does this give the user far more benefit from a customization perspective, but it allows each component to be developed independently, eliminating the need to update a monolithic piece of software each time something extremely minor changes.
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