Further Webbish Fun

This morning I had an impromptu de.lici.ous session with the Reference Services Librarian. We started with adding an extension for Firefox. The great thing about Firefox is that it gives you a personal profile on your local desktop. This means that you don't have to have access to the server - which is why Internet Explorer may not let you modify it.

Having set up the extension, we had a session bundling tags. I think this is the most problematic feature of de.lici.ous. You can't bundle tags in your sidebar or when you bookmark a page. You still need to edit bundles on the de.lici.ous website. However, if you have the toolbar enabled for Firefox then you can right-click either and then manage . This brings up a dialogue box which is much more linearly hierarchical. The "bundle tags" feature on the website is more pictorially hierarchical. So, each feature suits a different style of epistemologist.

The bundles are also not differentiated in your sidebar. The icons for both bundles and tags are identical. However, you can differentiate between your tags and bundles because your bundles will probably have more websites tagged in them and also they are on the higher level - i.e. you will have to expand them in your sidebar to see the tags. However, the search function in the sidebar works as a keyword search in both your tags and the names of websites. This is much handier than the traditional bookmark view where if you want to rename the bookmark you will lose the website name.

We also tried the other day to import bookmarks from Firefox. However, the website's instructions work only for I.E. To export your bookmarks from Firefox you will need to select "Organise Bookmarks" under the "Bookmarks" menu.

Watch this space for more exciting develpments...