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Creating OpenSearch plugins for Browsers
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By AviPublished:
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:12:48 -0200
Updated:
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:06:38 -0200
Published:
3 Dec 2007
Updated:
31 Jan 2008
Published:
6:12 pm
Updated:
7:06 pm
Categories: Web 2.0
Tags: best best:tech lang:en tech:ok
I just came across a Mozilla::Developer page that teaches how to let visitors on a site easily add that site’s search function into their browsers as a plugin.
If you are reading this in my blog and you select your browser’s search tool, this is what you’ll see:

You’ll get the option to permanently add my blog’s search function to your browser. If you select it, you’ll have this:

To make it, I followed the instructions on the first link and created my OpenSearch description file. Look! Technorati, Microsoft, and many others have OpenSearch-enabled websites.
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OOh, I know a site that needs this badly. I had no idea you could do it, though- thanks for the pointer, Avi.