February 22, 2008
Search Plugins for Miami-Dade Public Library
Thanks to the kind work of librarysearch.org volunteer Johnathan Mayo, there’s now a browser search plugin for the Miami-Dade Public Library System catalog.
I’ve got to learn to write these. It looks so easy, but my first try bombed…
Posted by Michael : February 22, 2008 11:33 AM | Miami , Software | TechnoLinks
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It!
I created a quickie keyword search for the local library system.
The hard part was getting Firefox to accept the plugin.
I ended having to created an HTML file with the following script:
function installSearchEngine(searchPlugin) {
if (window.external && ("AddSearchProvider" in window.external)) {
// Firefox 2 and IE 7, OpenSearch
window.external.AddSearchProvider(searchPlugin);
} else {
// No search engine support (IE 6, Opera, etc).
alert("No search engine support");
}
}
and the following links in the body:
install Search Engine
Note that the fully-qualified URL is key, because it checks for "http" (or https or ftp)