blue sky:
miscellaneous
Sure, Mozilla's cache does a great job of rememebering stuff you've
already looked at. But wouldn't it be great if it could be engorging
itself on stuff you're going to look at in the future, while you're
otherwise occupied?
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Is the Internet full of petty thieves and vicious pirates, preying upon
the works of innocent authors with impunity? Probably not. But it probably
is full of people who don't even know how to properly attribute the material
they've quoted from online sources. Lans presents a solution.
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Mozilla should include a Chat client. Not an IRC client, not an ICQ
client, not an AOL Instant Messenger client: those are specific
implementations. Mozilla should include a Chat client that speaks those,
and more.
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I get a lot of email. No, that's too deadpan: I get more email than god,
and it's very difficult to deal with such a large body of information.
In this essay I outline a plan for a project that attempts to address this
problem. I've dubbed the project Intertwingle.
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Bookmarks represent a huge untapped (previously untappable) source of
tacit edorsement of the utility of a particular web resource. If we could
harness this resource, we might be able to provide some very useful
information.
Read all about
it...
Caching can be used as a more powerful tool than to simply speed up
the reloading of documents that you've recently visited. In this essay
Paul describes some ideas on how it could be used to provide a useful
archive of visited pages.
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404s are a pain in the neck and don't seem to be going away any time
soon. In the following essay Paul discusses a few possibile situations
where support from Mozilla could lend a helping hand to keeping the web
from turning into a wasteland of dead end streets.
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There are a multitude of sites on the Internet that require or provide
registered user accounts. This coupled with the human tendency to be
forgetful and a general knack for thinking up bad passwords makes an
automated system for managing accounts and passwords direly needed.
Read all about it...
Ideas will be moved into these archives from the
main page as they are replaced by newer (and maybe even better) ideas. So
start thinking.