HTML vs XUL

Rendering bookmarks to HTML has a key advantage: link visitation status coding, e.g. the purple or blue text coloring.

Why does this matter?

• Not recently visited
• high visit count -> likely revisit
• low visit count
• no visit count -> todo item
  
• Recently visited
• high visit count -> likely revisit
• low visit count -> potentially an isolated context

So how might we get this information into the XUL bookmark menu and data table?  A two dimensional plot might work plotting visit count vs time since last visit (on a logarithmic or power scale).  By drawing a line between the axis positions and filling the resulting region, low level visual feature extraction could likely assist visual search.  The intensity of the fill would vary along with the probability of revisit while the horizontal versus vertical contrast would distinguish active from archival marks. An 8 x 8 value continuum can be presented in a 16x16 pixel space.

There's another factor of interest, age.  While the age of a mark is less indicative of revistation likelihood, given last visit, it does offer a useful memory cue.  Bookmarks in which last visit is equal to first visit offer a special case and should be visually distinct.  Color could be used for age though a redundant non-color cue would be ideal.

I'm imagining a sparklines style visualization.


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Posted at 17:16, Published in: Ideas