RDF Todo List

guha
jg
Robert Churchill



This is a list of things that need to be done with the RDF back end along with some details of how they should be done.

Making the state location independent

Berkeley DB is currently used to record bookmarks and personalizations of sitemaps, etc.

There are at least two things broken with the current implementation.

  1. It assumes a berkeley DB.
  2. It assumes that the DB is local.
We want to be able to use any kind of backing store (including flat files) which can be anywhere.

Vocab Changes

There is some special vocabulary that the browser recognizes and some of this should be changed to use dublin core.
name to title
parent to section

Namespaces

Finish namespace handling in RDF parser.

Hiding html navigation

Many pages have a simple html based sitemap which should be hidden if nav center is visible. The portion of html which should be hidden should be placed within <navigation>...</navigation>

Need to hack the html parser (and/or layout engine) so that this portion of the html gets thrown out if the navcenter is open.

Smarter History Clustering

Under history-by-date, if a container has more than N (=20?) immediate children, it should be further sub-categorized.
Should consider getting rid of glhist.c and storing that data in some rdf format. That will allow us to do away with hist2rdf.c, glhist.c and also reduce memory footprint.

Gathering Operations

Need something in HT so that we can gather all the operations that have been performed on a database. This can be used both for editing and by shack (to transmit back all the operations to a server).

Dispatch services

There should be two types of Smart Browsing Services --- folders containing entries and html pages. The page services should also be invokable by dragging a url onto them.

Undo

Persistent Client Store

Most of the backend work is done. Left to do :
  1. Security : checking to see whether the domain can read the database.
  2. Doing something about file size and lifetime (i.e., when does it get deleted).

Direct Javascript Reflection

Need to finish this.

Cache

Reflect Cache as a data source.

Cookies

Reflect Cookies as a data source.

It would be useful to have a new pane in navcenter corresponding to these navigator internals (cache, cookies, what else)?

Scratch workspace

Create a data store which acts as a "scratch" workspace.

Standalone

Create standalone lib with the following.
  1. Netlib and NSPR
  2. Expat XML parser
  3. RDF parser
  4. data sources for the RDF files, local files.
  5. core.

Searching

It should be possible to do a search in any collection of documents (i.e., on any folder in NavCenter) --- bookmarks, history, sitemaps, ...

It should be possible to do the search either in the body of the document or only on the title (much less useful).

Searching the document might require significant network activity, but this can be significantly reduced if the document is in the cache. Maybe the rules for throwing something out of the cache should be different for different mime types? (i.e., text stays much longer than images, preferably as long as history?)