Any approach should make synchronization optional. That's sort of a MUST.

But the better question is "what kind of synchronization?" You could
integrate so tightly that there's no difference between my Firefox
bookmarks and my del.icio.us bookmarks. But the new FF3 system is so
flexible that it's probably better to follow StumbleUpon's approach.
Have a single folder in FF3's sql-lite database be a del.icio.us
folder, and only synchronize bookmarks using that folder.

That way, you wouldn't be interfering with folks who want to retain
some of the FF3 Places functionality and appearance.

If you want to be really fancy, within that folder you could group
bookmarks by category (as you do within Del.icio.us).

That's my take.

mrshl
cloudnotes.net

--- In delicious-firefox-extension@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Hood"
<stephenh@...> wrote:
>
> Yep, we are definitely looking into how this could work. There are a
> few challenges, including the fact that Firefox support spaces in tags
> but Delicious does not.
>
> For me the bigger concern is illustrated via a bit of history. When
> we first launched the Delicious Bookmarks add-on (nearly two years ago
> now), the original version did in fact integrate with the Firefox
> bookmarks system. But ironically, it integrated SO well that users at
> the time were nearly unanimous in their hatred for that approach.
> Ooops. :) People felt that we had overreached by building Delicious
> too deeply into their local bookmark system. We heard a lot of
> feedback that people wanted to keep their Firefox bookmarks separate
> from Delicious, since they used them for different purposes and wanted
> to organize them in different ways.
>
> As a result of the feeback we did some rethinking and the team did
> some great work in quickly turning out a new version that was more
> like what we have today -- an add-on that co-exists with the Firefox
> bookmarking functionality and conservatively hooks into it where
> appropriate.
>
> Given all the new whizbang goodness in FF3, it certainly makes sense
> to rethink all of this. But I wonder if people might dislike the
> results if we went ahead and integrated more deeply...
>
> What do y'all think?
>
> --Stephen
>
>
>
> --- In delicious-firefox-extension@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Conkling"
> <andrew.conkling@> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:00, Jason Lustig <lustig@> wrote:
> >
> > > Will Delicious ever implement its Firefox extension in this way?
> >
> >
> > It's been asked a few times before, and they basically said they're
> looking
> > into it for future versions.
> >
>