On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:00:39 +0100, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Robert Kaiser wrote: > > > hawker schrieb: > > >> So in SM 2.0 and before the sidebar search displayed the search results > >> in both the browser window and below the search input. > > > > Unfortunately that's not possible in this way with the > > new search mechanism we switched to in 2.1 and later. > > This is unfortunate, but OTOH the older mechanism couldn't > > support the OpenSearch standard all other browser support, > > At the risk of sounding confrontational (which is not my intent) > "doing what all other browsers do" is not, I suggest, why most > of us use Seamonkey. We use Seamonkey because it does /not/ do > what the other browsers do : if we wanted what the other browsers > do, we would use the other browsers.
The old Sherlock search engines are getting increasingly rare. Websites that offer search engines these days now only have them OpenSearch format. mycroft.mozdev.org which is probably the most comprehensive collection of search engines is in the process of deleting Sherlock plugins once the OpenSearch version is available. Eventually there won't be any more Sherlock plugins available. Also many Sherlock plugins did not have the optional metadata that supported the scraping mechanism used to populate the search results in the sidebar. This was optional and looking through Mycroft most Sherlock format plugins never bothered to include this data anyway. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
