3 Apr
2005
3 Apr
'05
4:15 p.m.
Hi - I am adding London openguides to the search toolbar in my Firefox
installation . The idea is you can search openguides even if you
haven't got a page open. I thought I would share my experiences so far
- if anyone would like to try this out let me know how you get on
You need to put the attached file in the appropriate place which will
be something like
/usr/lib/Mozilla/searchplugins
C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins/
I havent figured out what this bit does. It might allow you to put the
search into a sidebar but I havent understood that.
<interpret
resultListStart="<ol"
resultListEnd="</ol>"
resultItemStart="<li>"
resultItemEnd="</li>"
Next stage is to add an icon and allow it to get installed from a server
The documentation is in http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs.html
<cid:part1.01030506.01070608@black1.org.uk
# Search Plugin for Open Guides
# By Andrew Black
<search
version="7.1"
name="London Openguides"
description="London Openguides"
action="http://london.openguides.org/supersearch.cgi"
searchForm="http://london.openguides.org/supersearch.cgi"
method="GET"
<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search" <input name="search" user
<interpret
resultListStart="<ol"
resultListEnd="</ol>"
resultItemStart="<li>"
resultItemEnd="</li>"
</search
3 Apr
3 Apr
4:32 p.m.
Andrew Black wrote:
<input name="search" user
<input name="Go" value="Go"
<input name="sourceid" value="mozilla-search" <inputnext name="offset"
factor="20" <inputprev
name="offset" factor="20"
<interpret
browserResultType="result"
charset="ISO-8859-1"
resultListStart="<ol"
resultListEnd="</ol>"
resultItemStart="<li>"
resultItemEnd="</li>"
</search
<browser
update="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/oglondon.src"
updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/oglondon.png"
updateCheckDays="3"
Hi - I am adding London openguides to the search
toolbar in my
Firefox installation . The idea is you can search openguides even if
you haven't got a page open. I thought I would share my experiences
so far - if anyone would like to try this out let me know how you get on
I totally forgot, but I made one ages ago. The files attached are the
plugin and the icon; put them both in your Firefox program folder, which
on Windows tends to be under Program Files somewhere.
I did submit it to Mycroft but never heard anything back from them.
Dave
# Mycroft Search Plugin for Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape 6+, Beonix browsers
# Mycroft Homepage: http://mycroft.mozdev.org
#
# SearchSite: Open Guide to London
#
# CreationDate: 03 Oct 2004
# Author: Dave Arquati (darqknight47 at yahoo.co.uk)
<SEARCH
version = "7.1"
name="Open Guide to London"
description="Open Guide to London, freely editable city guide"
method="GET"
action="http://london.openguides.org/supersearch.cgi"
queryCharset="ISO-8859-1"
searchForm="http://london.openguides.org/"
routeType="internet"
![updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/oglondon.png"](http://updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/oglondon.png%22){kind=link}
10:08 p.m.
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:
Andrew Black wrote:
In a fit of AOLage, me too.
Something like this should be fairly easy to generate automagically, apart
from the icon (and you can always supply a default one). Would it be a
nice thing to build on install, or offer a quick script to build one? Not
sure how standard the search that OGL has is though...
billy
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- it's just that whenever I fly, I'm positive that my plane
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Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
Hi - I am adding London openguides to the search
toolbar in my Firefox
installation .
I totally forgot, but I made one ages ago.
5 Apr
5 Apr
9:38 a.m.
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.
Any suggestions on what the bits below do. Dave has done much the same
as me but I can't work out what it does
<interpret
resultListStart="<ol"
resultListEnd="</ol>" etc etc
10:57 a.m.
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Andrew Black wrote:
Any suggestions on what the bits below do. Dave has
done much the same as me
but I can't work out what it does
<interpret
resultListStart="<ol"
resultListEnd="</ol>" etc etc
I hadn;t seen these bits before and had a bit of a dig in the searchplugin
docs - http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/interprettag.html
It tells mozilla (rather than firefox) how to pull search results out of
the page to stick them in the sidebar, as well as going to the search
results page itself. It's quite nifty.
Although at the moment it also pulls out "Recent Changes" as a result,
even when it isn't, and doesn't seem to like "'"s in links when
it's
extracting them.
billy
--
I have ulterior motives cleverly disguised as apathy
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
1:42 p.m.
Billy Abbott wrote:
I hadn;t seen these bits before and had a bit of a dig in the
searchplugin docs - http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/interprettag.html
It tells mozilla (rather than firefox) how to pull search results out
of the page to stick them in the sidebar, as well as going to the
search results page itself. It's quite nifty.
Are you saying this will only work with Mozilla?
Although at the moment it also pulls out "Recent
Changes" as a result,
even when it isn't, and
Google puts comments <!--a--> .... <!--z--> around the search results.
Maybe if we asked nicely OG could do similarly.
doesn't seem to like "'"s in links
when it's extracting them.
Sorry - Don't follow that one
2:15 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Andrew Black wrote:
Billy Abbott wrote:
do a search on OGL for "hay's galleria" - the link on the search results
page will link to http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Hay's_Galleria
but the link in the sidebar only gets as far as the ' -
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Hay
That'll be a parser using ' or " to end the href string, rather than
matching it to what's at the front of the string i would guess. Is ' a
valid/good thing to have in a URL?
billy
--
"We have an A-Bomb...what more do you want, mermaids?"
-I.I. Rabi, speaking in defense of Robert Oppenheimer
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
doesn't seem to like "'"s in
links when it's extracting them.
Sorry - Don't follow that one
8 Apr
8 Apr
12:53 a.m.
Andrew Black wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:
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
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.
6:29 a.m.
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:
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:
<snip>
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.
I've got one of these up at
http://www.cowfish.org.uk/random/addoglsearch.html which works - code is
pretty much the same as yours, only really differing on paths and the A
tag (i use onclick, you have javascript:).
I can't get http://openguides.org/london/oglondon.src or
http://openguides.org/london/oglondon.png though, which your javascript is
trying to grab, which would break it.
billy
--
Napalm is nature's toothpaste
Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk
12:01 p.m.
Billy Abbott wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:
That was meant to be an example... I don't think anyone at OGL has put
up the files yet! I was trying to grab it from a local directory (the
same one as my test page), but the Javascript console kept telling me
there weren't enough arguments (although that error was coming from
Firefox's JS sidebar code, so my code must have reached the innards of
the browser).
Dave
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:
<snip>
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.
I've got one of these up at
http://www.cowfish.org.uk/random/addoglsearch.html which works - code
is pretty much the same as yours, only really differing on paths and
the A tag (i use onclick, you have javascript:).
I can't get http://openguides.org/london/oglondon.src or
http://openguides.org/london/oglondon.png though, which your
javascript is trying to grab, which would break it.
billy
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