[Camino] bookmarks viewer preview feature concept

[Stuart Morgan]

On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:48 PM, David Fedoruk wrote:

> the Bookmark Manager should be capable of storing all the relevant  
> information needed to produce a citation.
> [snip]
> Currently Camino keeps Date Last Visited, and number of times  
> visited. These are interesting statistics, but irrelevant for  
> citation purposes.
> [snip]
> Date retrieved is a necessity as it goes to the state of the  
> document on a certain date and time.

It's impossible for the bookmark manager to store all the relevant  
information needed to produce a citation.  It's exactly as you said-- 
you need it to store "a certain date and time".  Which one?  If you  
visit a site 20 times, which time, exactly, was the time you studied/ 
quoted/whatever it?  The bookmark manager can't know.  I don't see  
how the last-visited date is irrelevant for citation, since it seems  
highly likely that someone would bookmark something during an initial  
search for sources, maybe visit them again to filter that down to a  
useful set, then go through and read each of those carefully.  In  
that case, last visit is exactly the required information.

If you have a *specific* suggestion for extra information you want  
stored in the bookmarks (I would guess you are thinking of bookmark  
creation date), you should file it at bugzilla.mozilla.org.

-Stuart