Clipmarks

Nice idea but how about going a step further and porting clipmarks functionality to Drupal! The way I would design it would be.

1. A Javascript Bookmarklet:
A javascript bookmarklet that can copy the current selection of any web page and post it as a "web clipping" to the php drupal module.

2. A PHP Drupal Module:
- Receives the web clipping html from the bookmarklet
- Create a drupal node to hold the web clipping (of custom content type "webclipping")
- Caches any resources required by the web clipping (images etc) and stores them in the files system (i.e. in a subdirectory for each /files//)
- rewrites the web clipping html to refer to the cached resources.
- tidy up and css required by the web clipping.
- Stores the tidied web clipping html, along with the original URL in the drupal node.

This technique could the support

- A drupal based web clipping tool (like google notebooks, clipmarks, evernote etc)
- build mashups of webclips, possibly using views and panels and "refreshable webclips" (like the IBM Web Clipping Portlet)
- build a personal library of web clips (like the firefox scrap book extension)
- allow users to keep only the parts of the a web page that they want to keep (like the "Readability" JavaScript bookmarklet)
- allow users to cache web content, in case it is "lost" on the web (like file save or file save as in web browsers)
- support a drupal blog tool that can link blog comments to a local cache of the page they are commenting on and therefore avoid broken links
- and more

Any thoughts?

I would be happy to do the coding for this but currently struggling with cross site scripting problems because the bookmarklet is run from the original page/domain being clipped and needs to post the clipping information to the drupal installation in another domain - which implies cross site scripting and causes most browsers to complain...