Advice for choosing correct architecture/tech for a hobby project

[Aseem Bansal]

The project is not a browser but a app for managing the bookmarks. Only managing by categories. A replacement for the bookmarks made in webbrowser. I wanted to make bookmarks easier to use. Hierarchical structure of bookmarks gives a lot of problems. I wanted to solve that for my use.

On Friday, May 23, 2014 1:19:22 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote:
> On 5/22/14 1:54 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
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> > I am working on a hobby project - a Bookmarker{snip}
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> hi,  no django is not really the correct tool-set. Django is for 
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> server-side content management, but who knows, you might come up with a 
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> great hack (I don't want to discourage you).  But, a straight python 
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> trimmed down app would probably be better...  what led you to django?
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> It seems from your descriptions, which don't make sense by the way, that 
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> you are attempting to create your own 'browser' within your app (web 
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> api) and you want to use a standard browser (like firefox or chrome) to 
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> 'front-end' the apps bookmarks. So, your app needs to be able to read 
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> your browser's bookmarks file.
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> Browsers most certainly can read http:// https:// file:// etc. (and many 
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> more). Your api may not be able to read local file://  urls, but I'm 
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> skeptical about that (most web api(s) have no trouble with file:// either).
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> Provide some more info, somebody will help.
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> marcus