Community:SummerOfCode09:Brainstorming

It would also be great to have Mozilla people involved with Metalink as well.

Oh dear. Thanks for the heads-up! roc

On the client side when attempting to print a page the addon would inject a printable stylesheet to make the printable output waste less paper, be more readable and just ascetically superior to raw printing. Since each site is unique if it didn't have a stylesheet for the site already it would query a central repository for stylesheets that match that url. If one or more is found it would be offered to the user as a stylesheet that could be installed and then printed with. Installing leaves a copy on the clients computer so that it could be used even in offline mode and if the repository were unavailable.

On the server side of things there would obviously need to be a repository of stylesheets and a way to review and rate them. For privacy purposes I think there should be no remote loading content in the stylesheet that doesn't originate on the server which the stylesheet is for (for example a sites logo would be ok if served from the site's server). Ratings and reviews would let the better ones gravitate to the top and the poorer ones fall to the bottom.

This approach is better than the more popular "select what you want to print" since it allows for not just printing a block of text, but printing web pages in a more meaningful and readable way.

bug 287066 bug 342916 bug 342917 Today the internet is an essential part of work and life, people have personal browsing habits and some things what they see and read they want to remember later or give to someone else. These pages define very good what the user wants, so they should be used for customization. Furthermore, addresses aren't available for infinity. Goals

• Integration into bookmarks
• Weave integration
• Backend support for fulltext address bar search
• Backend for extensions which detected updated webpages by source code comparing
• Making documents and files offline available, but be still able to update them via Firefox
• Save multiple captures of a web page

• <img src="ed2k://...">

• <object src="ed2k://...">

• <video src="ed2k://...">

• <audio src="ed2k://...">

• @font-face { ... src: url(ed2k://...); ... }

• background-image: url(ed2k://...);

The idea is that content does not need centralized Web hosting if it has enough readers willing to participate in file exchange.

The student is not expected to create a brand new Kad servent software from the scratch. The extension should (instead) be able to install (if not installed previously) and then use an existing ed2k/Kad software on the user's machine (free software such as eMule or MLDonkey, probably both should be known); the extension should just be able to determine (using ed2k and AICH hashes and file size given in the URL) whether the designated object exists in servent's cache; thus the extension's algorithm for serving content to Firefox is like the following:

• If the ed2k://... URL designates an object that exists in servent's cache, grab it.

• If the ed2k://... URL designates an object that does not exist in servent's cache, launch the servent (if not already running) and feed the URL into the servent.
  • If the object is not popular enough to be downloaded within a reasonable amount of time (e.g. half a minute), the extension signals to Firefox that request failed (similar to 504 Gateway Timeout of HTTP), but servent continues getting the object and thus the subsequent requests for the same object (e.g. when the page is reloaded) are more likely to be successful.

Note: if the «ed2k://» URL has «s=http://...» optional part (see «The ed2k link format» section in the Internet Archive page of Overnet), the extension should try the given Web URL first, and only if it fails (or if the given response does not match URL's filesize/ed2k hash/AICH hash) use the local servent.

descriptions resultURLs are very helpful for catalog searches (i. e. Wikipedia, shops, libraries, ...), descriptions for uncommon or very specific suggestions

MSI packages of Firefox are a long desired feature and would help enterprise users. Maybe Thunderbird could also benefit from this work. More info from Microsoft

1) User finds a download link.

2) Right Click -> Schedule this download

or -------- alternately

2) Tools->Downloads->Schedule a download -- In this case user populates the link field where as in the earlier case it is done automatically.

3) A dialog pops up asking the user when to schedule the download

4) User chooses time and saves the download to the queue.

Further control over these queued downloads will be provided with the DM window.

(The various control flow scenarios or use cases can be discussed in detail in a bug if this is accepted.)

Lightning's Calendar and Task mode should be ported to Sunbird, also the Today sidebar, either by modifying existing code or setting up a repacking script which integrates Lightning into Thunderbird, hides the mail UI and brands the build as Sunbird (including Sunbird UI)

All day tasks Current task support is very basic. All day tasks (which don't calendar pane stuff like today's tasks) and nested task supported would advance the user experience

Enhancing the the module for sending bugmails would allow further enhancements like HTML-based stuff

If a user adds a tag to a bug, he should be able to specify email preferences for this tag. This would be helpful because votes, ccs and watches can happen for different reasons, even of the same event class, i. e. bug triage, getting notified when bug gets resolved or reopened, discussion in the component your are a peer of etc. I. e. I would like to get rid of some bugs which change the status from unconfirmed to new (and already know that when I get cc-ed). Existing bug dependencies should also be changed to tags which would i.e. allow to get of bugmails for bugs you filed.