On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Abimanyu Raja <[email protected]>wrote:

> Wonderful! Now, can we get previews for the all built-in commands like
> Yahoo!, ask, etc?
>

That was the idea - the only problem (or at least the biggest as I see it)
is commands that currently have a preview in place, that in some cases are
prettier and/or more informative.

Doesn't quite feel right to undo peoples hard work, but on the other hand,
it would be nice it all our search-commands looked "the same"

-- cers / Christian Sonne


>
> - Abi
>
> 2009/2/18 Christian Sonne <[email protected]>
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> Last night, I pushed some changes to CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand, such that
>> it is now easy to create a search command with keyboard-navigatable preview
>> of the results. (via accesskey corresponding to resultnumber)
>>
>> It has much room for improvements, but I encourage you to play around with
>> it, and suggestions for improvements are much welcome.
>>
>> I've made a few examples myself: (some are named oddly, as to avoid
>> name-crash with existing default search commands)
>>
>> CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
>>   name: "Trac",
>>   url: 
>> "https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/search?q={QUERY}<https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/search?q=%7BQUERY%7D>
>> ",
>>   icon: "https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/chrome/common/trac.ico";,
>>   parser: {container: "dl#results",
>>            title: "dt",
>>            preview: "dd.searchable",
>>            baseurl: "https://ubiquity.mozilla.com"},
>>   description: "Searches Trac for your words."
>> });
>>
>> CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
>>   name: "poodle",
>>   url: 
>> "http://www.google.com/search?q={QUERY}<http://www.google.com/search?q=%7BQUERY%7D>
>> ",
>>   icon: "http://www.google.com/favicon.ico";,
>>   parser: {container: "div ol",
>>            title: "h3.r",
>>            preview: "div.s"},
>>   description: "Searches Google for your words."
>> });
>>
>> CmdUtils.makeSearchCommand({
>>   name: "wookiepedia",
>>   url: "
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={QUERY}&fulltext=Search<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%7BQUERY%7D&fulltext=Search>
>> ",
>>   icon: "http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico";,
>>   parser: {container: "ul.mw-search-results",
>>            title: "li a",
>>            preview: "div.searchresult",
>>            baseurl: "http://en.wikipedia.org"},
>>   description: "Searches Wikipedia for your words."
>> });
>>
>> Obviously, you'll need to run ubiquity from source for this to work.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -- cers / Christian Sonne
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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