[TxMt] Linking Commands Revision and Yahoo Experiment

[Brett Terpstra]

I'll update the wikipedia stuff, no problem.  I agree that all of  
these should be one bundle.  I don't think there's really any  
question...

Thanks,
Brett

On Mar 10, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 4. Mar 2007, at 22:04, Brett Terpstra wrote:
>
>> About the linking commands:  I modified the template slightly,  
>> taking the original input and using it where the title was before,  
>> and moving the title into an attribute.  Other than that, I think  
>> the plan looks great.
>>
>> This bundle includes the reworked pref files and a yahoo  
>> experiment.  The experiment loads up a pop up list of 10 results  
>> from a category (web, video, news) and links to the item you  
>> select.  It just gives you a little more flexibility than lucky  
>> linking.  However, Google's policies do not allow for this kind of  
>> thing with their search engine, so I had to work with Yahoo to try  
>> it out.  It uses Yahoo's API and does no scraping.
>
> This looks good!
>
> Now, do we make one bundle with all sorts of link creation stuff,  
> or try to categorize things out in other bundles (like this special  
> Yahoo Services bundle)? I am leaning toward just the single bundle.
>
> We’d move Wrap Selection as Link and the current Google Lucky stuff  
> to that bundle as well (and remove the current specialization of it  
> for Markdown/HTML/«whatever»).
>
> I made the Wrap Selection as Link spot Amazon URLs (and shorten  
> these), so I think we can remove the Shorten Amazon URL from Web  
> Searches, and thus entirely remove that bundle.
>
> There is also your wikipedia stuff, which should be updated to use  
> templates, and then I definitely want all this among the default  
> bundles :)
>
>
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