El mar, 07-03-2006 a las 09:18 +0000, Ross Gardler escribió: > Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > El lun, 06-03-2006 a las 10:13 +0000, Ross Gardler escribió: > > > >>Thorsten Scherler wrote: > >> > >>>Hi all, > >>> > >>>I am working on a new plugin, a search engine broker (output). You can > >>>see it in action on http://www.target-x.de/search.html and > >>>http://www.target-x.de/search-forms.html. > >>> > >>>BTW that is my site with a new theme I developed while testing the > >>>dispatcher. :) > >> > >>Nice search plugin! > > > > > > :) > > > > How do you like the history list? > > I love it. Some feature requests: > > - persist the history between invocations
will implement it now > > - provide the search results for the last search in the browser page (I > block popups, maybe an iframe would be the simplest answer) > The problem is that most provider (like google) does not allow this. > - allow the setting of "preferred engines" and search them > simultaneously, i.e. Forrest site, Forrest Dev Arhives, Forrest User > Archives jeje, yeah that is the next step. I am planing to write a simple form to upload new definitions and limit the engines to a subset on structurer base. The metasearch would be really nice. ;) > I'm not about to implement any of these, but I would *love* to see them ;-) ;) > (I can magine using this plugin so no doubt will contribute one day, > just not right now). I need to finish the current plugin and add it to the svn that you and Cyriaque can play with it. > > >>With respect to reusing the search definition code. > >> > >>- What license is the definition schema released as? > > > > > > Not found any information on it but it seems an internal mozilla format > > and mozilla is ASF style license, right? > > I always thought so, but I have an inkling that it was listed as a > non-compatible license in the recent legal FAQ. I've not verified this > (possibly incorret) rcollection. Anyway, like Cyriaque, yourself and I have said it is dead simple and the xml schema is actually developed by myself. We should be save to add it to our rep. > >>We need to consider > >>reuse of the schema as well as the individual definitions. > > > > > > I would like to go one step further and try to start a discussion on > > mozilla to use a xml valid format instead of the halfbaked xml like > > format that they have right now. > > > > To re-use the existing mozilla *out-of-the-box" would be more then > > awesome. :) > > If you ave the time for another list ;-) lol yeah that is the bummer. I reckon I am faster to write a mozilla searchplugin (cleaner) generator. ;) Thx for the feedback. :) salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
