RE: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins
Going a little OT here, but you talking about Wikipedia reminded me of something - their horrible use of Alt+F to focus on the Search box. I'm a HEAVY keyboard user, and do all my 'driving' of Windows via keyboard shortcuts - the Alt+F hijacking wikipedia does really ruins my workflow because I either have to grab the mouse or go around this remapping... Is there anything stylesheet or override-wise which can be performed to stop this from happening? (particularly in IE). _ From: Richard Hyett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 June 2007 13:13 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins Having said that I use the Wikipedia plugin all the time, though that's the only one I do use apart from Google. I can't see that changing but you never know.
RE: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins
That is very cool playing with that now, Martin - how did you make that? m -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jem Stone Sent: Fri 6/29/2007 08:38 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins Martin Belam has been using Open Search to create some firefox and ie 7 bbc search plug ins,. http://www.currybet.net/download/search/bbc_search.php There's one; Dr Whoogle just for the Doctor Who site but the others search across the various slices of search we make available (whole site, just news, audio and video, some of the popular bbc blogs, even our recipe finder.). Martin is looking for better 16x16 icons btw and it looks like Its fantastic stuff. His blog post here outlines it in more detail http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2007/06/bbc_search_plugins_for_interne.php Jem - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins
Matthew Cashmore wrote: Martin - how did you make that? Something along these lines I suspect: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox Dave... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins
I just made two bits, both in PHP:
?php
header(Content-type: application/opensearchdescription+xml);
require_once include/siteconfig.php;
$searchURL= . siteURL . /searchresults.php?domains=www. . siteshortname
. amp;q={searchTerms}amp;sa=Searchamp;sitesearch=www. . siteshortname .
amp;client=pub-9831670053989117amp;forid=1amp;ie=ISO-8859-1amp;oe=ISO-8859-1amp;cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%2300%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFF%3BLBGC%3AF38609%3BALC%3AFF%3BLC%3AFF%3BT%3A00%3BGFNT%3AFF%3BGIMP%3AFF%3BLH%3A0%3BLW%3A0%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.
. siteshortname .
%2Fstyles%2Fimages%2Fgeneral%2Fanilogo.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww. .
siteshortname . %2F%3BFORID%3A11amp;hl=en;
echo
?xml version=\1.0\?
OpenSearchDescription
xmlns=\http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/\http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1//
ShortNameUK Free TV/ShortName
DescriptionUK Free TV/Description
Image height=\16\ width=\16\ type=\image/x-icon\ . siteURL .
/faviconukfree_v2.ico/Image
Url type=\text/html\ method=\get\ template=\$searchURL\/
Url type=\application/x-suggestions+json\ method=\GET\
template=\$searchURL\/
/OpenSearchDescription;
?
the searchresults.php file has...
script type=\text/javascript\
var googleSearchIframeName = 'googleSearchUnitIframe';
var googleSearchFrameWidth = 400;
var googleSearchFrameHeight = 1300;
var googleSearchFrameborder = 0 ;
/script
script type=\text/javascript\
src=\http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_search.js\http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_search.js/
/script;
and then just dropped this into my site's head sections...
link rel=search type=application/opensearchdescription+xml href=
opensearch.php title=UK Free TV
It works with IE and Firefox, Windows and Macs
On 29/06/07, Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Cashmore wrote:
Martin - how did you make that?
Something along these lines I suspect:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox
Dave...
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Re: [backstage] firefox/ie bbc search plug ins
This reminds me of the different approaches taken to Widgets/Gadgets. Last time I was on the Yahoo Gadget site they were inviting me to download their widgets, there were three logos, OSX, WIN and Linux, a widget for each OS. No wonder Yahoo are a failing company. Google invite users to embed widgets in their own page. I suppose this is the client - server argument again. As a developer I would far prefer to embed different searches in web pages than offer visitors a plugin no matter how good an icon file I could come up with. Having said that I use the Wikipedia plugin all the time, though that's the only one I do use apart from Google. I can't see that changing but you never know.
