Firefox/mycroft

What's Mycroft about?

The Mycroft site say's Mycroft project provides a rich collection of Search Plugins for Mozilla-based browsers (e.g. Netscape 7, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, and Beonex).

for me its access to search engine from the FireFox search bar it lets you add searches via plugins

Search Plugins

I made a [mycroft] plugin to search the Seti 23 Wiki.
this is the second hack of it =)
it uses a hacked version of the seti 23 favicon.ico

s23WikI

a search for the new seti 23 WikI please leave any feeback you have

Install

to auto install go to this page 23.me.uk

Manualy install

to manualy install down load the files [s23WikI.src] and [s23WikI.png], save them in your firefox\searchplugins directory, restart firefox, and the seti 23 wiki search should now be an option in the [mycroft] search bar.

s23WikI.scr

# Mycroft Search Plugin for Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape 6+, Beonix browsers 
# Mycroft Homepage: http://mycroft.mozdev.org
#
# SearchSite: seti 23 wiki (http://is-root.de/wiki)
# Status: Working Semi
# hacked from the below to work with the seti 23 wiki
# Hacked by: DrOwl mail me at catsnest co uk
# Date: 15 Feb, 2005
# Warning: i dont know what im doing this is just a hack, use at your own risk
#
# Original Author: Carey Evans <careye@spamcop.net>.
# This file is released to the public domain.
# Created: 30 Jan, 2003
# Modified: Dwayne C. Litzenberger
# Date: 30 Jan 2004
# Reason: Wikipedia has disabled their full-text search functionality,
#            so this plugin now does a regular lookup.
#
#
# 

<SEARCH
    version = "7.1"
   name="seti23 WiKi"
   description="the seti23.org WiKi"
   method="GET"
   action="http://is-root.de/wiki/index.php"
   queryCharset="ISO-8859-1"
   searchForm="http:/is-root.de/wiki/"
   routeType="internet"
>

<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="search" user>
<input name="go" value="Go">
<inputnext name="offset" factor="20">
<inputprev name="offset" factor="20">

<interpret
   browserResultType="result"
   charset="ISO-8859-1"
   resultListStart="</h2>"
   resultListEnd="<p>"
   resultItemStart="<li>"
   resultItemEnd="</li>"
>

</search>

<browser
   update="http://23.me.uk/filez/s23WikI.src"
   updateIcon="http://23.me.uk/filez/s23WikI.png"
   updateCheckDays="23"
>

S23WikI.png

Installing plugins from server

Installing from a server

Edit this script to include your server and path information. Then place this script into your HTML file:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function errorMsg()
{
  alert("Netscape 6 or Mozilla is needed to install a sherlock plugin");
}
function addEngine(name,ext,cat)
{
  if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof
  window.sidebar.addSearchEngine == "function"))
  {
    //cat="Web";
    //cat=prompt('In what category should this engine be installed?','Web')
    window.sidebar.addSearchEngine(
      "http://localhost.localdomain/plugins directory/"+name+".src",
      "http://localhost.localdomain/plugins directory/"+name+"."+ext,
      name,
      cat );
  }
  else
  {
    errorMsg();
  }
}
//-->
</script>

Link your plugins to the above script with this code, by replacing the file name, image extension and category name with that of the plugin file:

<a href="javascript:addEngine('File name','image extension','Category name')">Name of Plugin</a>

• http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/installing.html#server

Chat excerpts from Freenode #mozilla:

<  mutante__> could you give me a hint what i need to look into  to make a web-installable .xpi firefox plugin once i got a working .scr file for a Mycroft search plugin
<  mutante__> i have a .scr and a .png file which work if copied to ./searchplugins manually
<  mutante__> now i would like to make an installable plugin out of it
<    mattmcc> You don't need to make an XPI.  Take a look at the code that mycroft.mozdev.org uses (addEngine())
<  mutante__> thanks,will do
<  mutante__> mattmcc: oh you mean placing javascript into html with function "addEngine" ?
<  mutante__> mattmcc: actually is making an xpi ,and just placing it on a server also an option in this case? (to avoid javascript,so i can just use regular a href links to the .xpi
<  mutante__> (which starts firefox'es install dialog)
<    mattmcc> I suppose you could make an xpi that didn't actually install anything.. :)
<    mattmcc> Actually, no, I'm not sure that works anymore.
<  mutante__> hmm,i want to put the link into a wiki where i cant add the javascript
<  mutante__> ok,thanks anyways
 *    mattmcc thinks with the new install.rdf format, you'd have to install at least some file.

seems like gotta make a html containing java script and then place a link to that in here ,greets mutante 19:55, 16 Feb 2005 (CET)

Feed back

try it out on your platforms and let me know how it performs,
please leave comments [here] good or bad

LoVe from your User:DrOwl

Nice work! Confirmed working smoothly on firefox 0.8 (ouch,gotta update this box) / Windows XP-SP2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8) mutante 19:32, 16 Feb 2005 (CET)