Separators

Taken from @lightdot’s comment over at #180

The separator situation in Chromium/Chrome is unfortunate. Users have requested them on several occasions but apparently they won’t be added.

There are how-to’s online that suggest mitigating the lack of functionality by adding specially crafted bookmarks, using bookmarklets. These seem to be very popular with Chromium/Chrome users.

Bookmark JSON for the horizontal “separator”:

            {
               "date_added": "<TIMESTAMPINMS>",
               "id": "<ID>",
               "meta_info": {
                  "last_visited_desktop": "<TIMESTAMPINMS>"
               },
               "name": "───────────",
               "type": "url",
               "url": "https://separator.mayastudios.com/index.php?t=horz"
            }

generated XBEL:

<bookmark href="https://separator.mayastudios.com/index.php?t=horz" id="<FLCID>"><title>───────────</title></bookmark>

In Vivaldi, separators are supported by the browser. Unsurprisingly, their actual format is a hack, similar to the above. From Vivaldi’s Bookmark file:

            {
               "date_added": "<TIMESTAMPINMS>",
               "id": "<ID>",
               "meta_info": {
                  "Description": "separator"
               },
               "name": "---",
               "type": "url",
               "url": "http://bookmark.placeholder.url"
            }

generated XBEL:

<bookmark href="http://bookmark.placeholder.url/" id="<FLCID>"><title>---</title></bookmark>

So we have those two, and from Firefox, JSON:

{"guid":"<GUID>","title":"","index":<INDEX>,"dateAdded":<UNIXTIMESTAMP>,"lastModified":<UNIXTIMESTAMP>,"id":<ID>,"typeCode":3,"type":"text/x-moz-place-separator"}

generated XBEL:

<bookmark href="data:" id="<FLCID>"><title/></bookmark>

Translating the above three hackish separators to XBEL’s <separator> element and back would IMHO be safe and cover a lot of users.

[godfuture]

Now that I have all separators in place, I replaced Fireofox sync for bookmarks with floccus. Currently working just fine.

Thanks a lot!

[tessus]

Thanks for the info!