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The way I see it, diigo only saves highlights for a constant URL. But many dynamic web applications add parameters to their URLs which are often only valuable for the server (sometimes as a replacement for cookies), but not for the client, because exactly the same content is returned.
To illustrate:
When we surf diigo's homepage, we discover the link
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html
On this page we underline the paragraph about diigo.
However, when we search CNET for the "Top ten research tools", the link suddenly is slightly modified:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html?tag=feat.1
We will discover that all our highlights have vanished, although it's still the same contents.
How can this problem be countered?
I suggest that every user gets the option to maintain a list of such links. I believe that Regular Expressions would be suitable, but too complicated for most and probably to difficult to implement.
I think it would suffice, if one simple writes the beginning of the URL and then lists parameters for in-/exclusion.
The status quo is:
for all "" method=exclude params="". // include every parameter except for 'none'
For the example URL, it could be like this:
for all "http://reviews.cnet.com/" method=include params="". // only include 'none' <=> exclude all <=> ignore all parameters
For a Google search with the following URL:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=diigo&btnG=Search
for all "http://www.google.com/search" method=include params="q". // only include parameter "q"
What do you think about that?
ranknfile wrote:
> The way I see it, diigo only saves highlights for a constant URL. But many dynamic web applications add parameters to their URLs which are often only valuable for the server (sometimes as a replacement for cookies), but not for the client, because exactly the same content is returned.
>
=========> Yes, it is not convenient sometimes. But for many dynamic websites, pages like http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html is not the same as those like http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html?tag=feat.1
>
> For the example URL, it could be like this:
> for all "http://reviews.cnet.com/" method=include params="". // only include 'none' <= > exclude all <= > ignore all parameters
>
> For a Google search with the following URL:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=diigo&btnG=Search
> for all "http://www.google.com/search" method=include params="q". // only include parameter "q"
>
> What do you think about that?
=========> I am not sure whether these rules will help me a lot, because I don't know whether http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html is the same as http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html?tag=feat.1 until I find they are the same.
BTW, if a page is bookmarked, there will be a “red book” icon on the Diigo button. According this indicator, we can know whether the page is bookmarked before when we visit it. In your case, when you visit http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-9239_7-6654999-1.html?tag=feat.1, you will not see the "red book" icon on the diigo button, it indicates that you never bookmarked this page before. It may not a big problem for users.
Joel Liu
ranknfile