From darqknight47@yahoo.co.uk Fri Apr  8 00:53:58 2005
From: Dave Arquati <darqknight47@yahoo.co.uk>
To: openguides-london@lists.openguides.org
Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-London] Find bar in Firefox
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:53:23 +0100
Message-ID: <4255C7F3.4050104@yahoo.co.uk>
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Andrew Black wrote:

> Dave Arquati wrote:
>
>>
>> I did submit it to Mycroft but never heard anything back from them.
>
>
> My feeling is that it would be better (or at least more achievable) to 
> host it on the Openguides site, or on a  site that one of us can 
> easily update things on.  The idea would be that there is an icon on 
> OG page that  when clicked on adds OG to your Firefox search icon.
> What  would the OG people think about that.

I've done a bit of digging and uncovered how to put a link on the 
Openguides site which users can click on to add the OG London search 
tool to Firefox/Mozilla:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/no_wrap/deepdocs/installing.html


So... the following code should work:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--

function addEngine(name,ext,cat)
{
  if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof 
window.sidebar.addSearchEngine == "function"))
  {
    window.sidebar.addSearchEngine(
      "http://openguides.org/london/"+name+".src",
      "http://openguides.org/london/"+name+"."+ext,
      name,
      cat );
  }
  else
  {
    alert("Netscape 6 or Mozilla is needed to install a search plugin");
  }
}
//-->
</script>

<a href="javascript:addEngine('oglondon','png','Travel')">Add us to your 
Firefox search box</a>

I can't seem to get it to work locally though (replacing the URL with my 
own one). I wonder if anyone else might have any luck.

Dave




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