Open Search and/or IE7 integration

n4rut0 · Post by **n4rut0** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:56 pm

I saw the following text when i was adding google to my ie7 and throught i could be nice to have Anidb search integrated into IE7.

"Promote your favorite search engines (including your own, if you have one) on your site with Internet Explorer 7! All you need is to run the following script on your page: window.external.AddSearchProvider(‘URL’) Where ‘URL’ points to an OpenSearch description document, which will tell Internet Explorer 7 how to add the search engine to the browser. "

opensearch is here http://opensearch.a9.com/

I know most of u guys love firefox and i cant complain... but i kinda like to have my windows with the smallest changes posible that way my registry doesnt grow big enought to slow down my system and ... instaling another explorer is kinda useless when windwos allready comes with one big enough... ie7 is a little smaller than IE6 but is still a microsoft product so

u cant beg much out of it.

u guys have the last word so ^^ i dont think it is that hard to do anyway so ^^ lets add it just to make the site cooler.

Post by **Der Idiot** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:00 pm

http://wiki.anidb.info/w/Browser-Internal_AniDB_Search

heck do i know how ie 7 will handle that and personally i couldn't care less. considering ie isn't even supported by anidb anyway

n4rut0 · Post by **n4rut0** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:21 pm

well... it may not be supported but i use it for over 3 years with anidb and never got a single error with it

IE7 got a box like firefox for search, got the tabbed browsing and the feature i love the most i can add as much web pages as i want when i start it ^^ i use the web only for 3 / 4 pages mostly... tokyotosho... bakaupdates, manga updates and anidb... i open them all with a single click ^^ i dont know if firefox does that tho...

btw. Thnx for the link i will try it

n4rut0 · Post by **n4rut0** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:49 pm

link didnt work... the anidb prefix doesnt work with ie7 or my dell's myway browser hijack is fucking playing with my prefix ;( oh well i guess i will make some site and redirect the homepage to anidb ;P

Jaymz · Post by **Jaymz** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:16 pm

Apologies for dragging this thread back from the grave, but as I already have AniDB as a search plugin in Firefox, and I'm currently beta testing Vista, I thought the same functionality in IE7 would be useful - especially as Firefox 2 will also use OpenSearch, and it can be used beyond just supporting the IE7 searchbar.

So without further ado, I wrote my own OpenSearch description of AniDB, according to the OpenSearch 1.1 spec:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
   <ShortName>AniDB</ShortName>
   <Description>AniDB is non-profit database of anime information that is freely open to the public.</Description>
   <Tags>arts media animation</Tags>
   <Url type="text/html" 
        template="http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=search&search.anime.name={searchTerms}&sourceid=opensearch&do.search=+Start+Search+"/>
<!--   <LongName>AniDB</LongName>   -->
<!--   <Image height="64" width="64" type="image/png">http://example.com/websearch.png</Image>   -->
   <Image height="16" width="16" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">http://www.anidb.net/favicon.ico</Image>
   <Developer>Jaymz</Developer>
   <Attribution>
     Search data (C) 2002-2005 by AniDB, all rights reserved
   </Attribution>
<!--   <SyndicationRight>open</SyndicationRight>  -->
<!-- Might want to modify syndication rights -->
   <AdultContent>true</AdultContent>
   <Language>en-us</Language>
   <OutputEncoding>us-ascii</OutputEncoding>
   <InputEncoding>us-ascii</InputEncoding>
 </OpenSearchDescription>

To allow IE7 and Firefox 2 to autodiscover this service, you can add this to the <head> portion of your site:

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     <link rel="search"
           type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" 
           href="http://server.goes.here/path/to/anidb-search.xml"
           title="AniDB" />

That way, the search box in IE has a little flashy thing, from which the end user can add it to their list of search engines. Seeing as this isn't just a Microsoft thing (in fact, OpenSearch is mostly Amazon's doing, and Firefox 2 will also be supporting it) and can allow for far more uses than just adding a search box IE users, it might be worthwhile at least considering.

Edit: Just confirmed this method works in both IE7 under Vista RC2 and in Firefox 2 RC2 as well.

Website · Post by **Rar** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:15 pm

Have trackered the request. You probably don't mean to be going through the show=search query though, that's actually worse than the various *list lookups atm.

Rar

AnimeOtaku · Post by **AnimeOtaku** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:58 am

n4rut0 wrote:well... it may not be supported but i use it for over 3 years with anidb and never got a single error with it

IE7 got a box like firefox for search, got the tabbed browsing and the feature i love the most i can add as much web pages as i want when i start it ^^ i use the web only for 3 / 4 pages mostly... tokyotosho... bakaupdates, manga updates and anidb... i open them all with a single click ^^ i dont know if firefox does that tho...

btw. Thnx for the link i will try it

Firefox does this things since a long time ago....and there are serveral plugins for firefox available, which allows you to blocks nearly all advertisement (adblock plus) or there are also downloader (as plugin) for videos which you see on youtube or similar.
And it's just more secure. (our Administrators would fire us if we use ie for surfing).
And Firefox interacts better with default html/CSS things. As Web Developer you will surely face many problems with the IE

That should be the new IE^^:
www.ie7.com