ok maybe i’ll just let the search engines pay us to use them (Grin)
Thanks Gregg > On Aug 23, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Steven Githens <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I don't believe there is anything that is elegant in a way that mailto: is > requiring just markup to launch in a specific search engine. > > From javascript, on desktop browsers that allow you to select the default > browser search engine, I believe that those stored settings would still not > be available to the in page script sandbox for security reasons. So you > wouldn't be able to fetch that value and craft a specific URL to open a new > page in. ( I might be wrong on this. ) > > So in the context of a general purpose tag that you could use anywhere, I > don't think this is possible at the current time. Would likely require some > sort of standardization. > > In the context of wanting to do this for specific applications, or specific > applications, or perhaps even just being ok with defaulting to google or > something if the infrastructure wasn't there, you could theoretcially do > something like: > 1) Write a browser extension to to decorate the page with that type of > information, or > 2) Do something like add it as a GPII preference, and if you were in an > environment where you were keyed in, you could perform another request to get > the default search engine, or > 3 ) Also in a GPII context, make that custom search request to a local or > remote flowmanger, or GPII browser extension, and have it rewrite the URL and > send it back, opening a new page with that request. > > It's not a bad idea for an html tag, it would be interesting to hear from > Lidiya or someone on where this might be used. > > Cheers, > Steve > > > > On Aug 23 2018, at 6:29 am, [email protected] wrote: > > Is there a search equivalent to the mailto markup in HTML? > > That is, is there a way to have a link that when you click on it it will open > up a given string in the user’s default search engine? > > We would like to make it so that it is possible for someone to be able to > just click on a phrase in our webpage (Unified Listing) and have it open up > in a search engine, but we don’t want to decide in advance which search > engine is used. > > If it’s not available in HTML markup, is there a simple JavaScript function > or something like that that we can use. > > Thanks much > > Gregg > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gpii.net/mailman/listinfo/architecture >
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