Firefox search engine and McMaster-Carr

[David Utidjian]

gneedel,

Welcome to the PM forums. Lots of good stuff and good people here for those interested in manufacturing and how it is done.
Interesting how ideas get around... what with google and all.

rkward,

You are welcome but... Keith Krome is the one that got the idea going. Kind of like talking about an itch to scratch and not knowing how to get at it. I have noticed the same itch and, evidently, so have others. All I did was figure out how to scratch it.... more like, how others scratch the same kinda itch. Hmmm... OK that analogy metaphor has been flogged enough.

All,

I was looking back through the xml file and I have trimmed it down a bit. Interesting thing is... I went and looked at my"working" file and it had changed. I guess Firefox does all that image conversion stuff automagically. My original working file (listed in previous post) had been altered and a whole lot of alphabet soup had been added for the icon. With the tip from gneedel I modified my original xml to this:

McMaster-Carr.xml

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
                       xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>McMaster-Carr</ShortName>
<Description>Searches McMaster-Carr for stuff</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">http://www.mcmaster.com/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.mcmaster.com/#{searchTerms}">
</Url>
<moz:SearchForm>http://www.mcmaster.com</moz:SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Which is only about 526 bytes. I then re-started Firefox and the file grew to 3388 bytes on my system. Looking at the file and it had automagically added the alphabet soup for the icon. Neat!

Keith,

Google is just an internet version of McMaster Carr search.

Pretty soon I'll be "I mcmastered this last night..." and "I mcmastered that the other day..."

That is pretty damn funny.

-DU-