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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>
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
i have it working on firefox 1 / win2k
LoVe from your 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)
hehe well i fiddled with my test auto install copyed from the mycroft page turns out it only works if you use the full path (ie including http://) and i took out the extra bits to made mine more like the one sugested here =)
not to shore how to make it install from this page. is there a way to add code to just this page? --DrOwl
Go here * http://23.me.uk/mycroft.php and click install.