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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/webapp.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/webapp.mdwn index 3d33f805e..1e358cfb2 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/webapp.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/webapp.mdwn @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ The webapp is a web server that displays a shiny interface. * there could be a UI to export a file, which would make it be served up over http by the web app +* there could be a UI (some javascript thing) in the web browser to + submit urls to the web app to be added to the annex and downloaded. + See: [[wishlist:_an___34__assistant__34___for_web-browsing_--_tracking_the_sources_of_the_downloads]] * Display the `inotify max_user_watches` exceeded message. **done** * Display something sane when kqueue runs out of file descriptors. * allow renaming git remotes and/or setting git-annex repo descriptions diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_an___34__assistant__34___for_web-browsing_--_tracking_the_sources_of_the_downloads.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist:_an___34__assistant__34___for_web-browsing_--_tracking_the_sources_of_the_downloads.mdwn index c61b32b35..2b98351e0 100644 --- a/doc/todo/wishlist:_an___34__assistant__34___for_web-browsing_--_tracking_the_sources_of_the_downloads.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_an___34__assistant__34___for_web-browsing_--_tracking_the_sources_of_the_downloads.mdwn @@ -15,3 +15,12 @@ So, I could be assisted by a replacement of the "downloads" menu of, say, Firefo Then I'll have the interesting literature there when I'm offline; the source URLs would be saved, so that they can be put into the references. Also, if I distribute this work with Git, at another location git-annex can be used to easily get all the literature again. (Hmmm... probably, the browser that this will be simplest for me to implement for is emacs-w3m; simply, some functions calling git-annex...) + +> This seems fairly doable to implement since the git-annex [[design/assistant]] +> already has a webapp. So a javascript toolbar thing could be made that +> submits the current url (or maybe links dragged into it?) to the webapp +> for adding to the annex. +> +> The only wrinkle is that the webapp runs under a new url each time +> it starts, due to using a high port and embedding some auth token in the +> url. --[[Joey]] |