I just found out about a cool feature of Mozilla: "keywords" in its bookmarks. This allows you to type a keyword into the Location bar followed by a space, some more text, and then hit Enter. The additional text is a referenced in the bookmark as "%s", so it can be used to do parameter substitution (and more if you get fancy).
Hit Ctrl-B, to bring up the Bookmark Manager, select File/New/Bookmark, enter its name and location. Then edit its Properties to add a keyword, and then hit the Ok button. That's it. So try it with: Name: Search CPAN Location: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=%s&mode=all Keyword: cpan Now try out your new keyword service by typing "cpan xml" into your Location bar and then Enter. You can use this feature to make easy interaction with various web services out there. Anything that you can interact via a simple URL substitution is easy. Note that these are bookmarks you would not click on as they have "%s" in them as a substitution token. They are meant to allow interaction via the Location bar. Of course you could put in a real URL (no %s) to have a convenient keyword alias, but I generally prefer just clicking on an item in the Personal Toolbar. But maybe your Personal Toolbar is filled up and you have some common sites you go to regularly. Here are a few more that may be useful: Name: Google Search Location: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s Keyword: gg Name: Dictionary Lookup Location: http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster?method=exact&isindex=%s Keyword: d Here are some websites that give more examples and even show how to use Javascript to do more complex substitutions: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/bookmarks/ http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/keyword_searching.html http://grayrest.com/moz/resources/bookmarks.shtml Have fun. Let your fellow users know of any other especially good keyword web services. -- Mike Arms _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
