[Techtalk] writing search plugins for firefox

[Tricia Bowen]

Hi Priya,
The "Search Plugin Validator" (http://www.mindzilla.com/auditform.php) say
you have errors in your code below. It looks like they want the Name and
Method on separate lines.
--Tricia

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:01 PM, priya venkateshan <priyaven at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey, all
> Does anyone here have any experience writing plugins (especially
> search plugins) for firefox?
> Coz i followed this tutorial here
> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/quickstart.html#firstplugin
> to write a search plugin that searches on images.google.co.in
>
> my code looks like this now
>
> <search version="7.1" name="images.google.co.in"
> description="google.co.in Image Search"
> action="http://images.google.co.in/"
> searchForm="http://images.google.co.in" method="GET">
> <input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
> <input name="q" user>
> <input name="f" value="q">
> <input name="hl" value="en">
> </search>
> <browser
>  update="
> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/update.php/id0/google.co.in_imageSearch.src"
>  updateIcon="
> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/update.php/id0/google.co.in_imageSearch.gif"
>  updateCheckDays="7"
> >
>
> i saved it as a .src file, and put a GIF image in the same folder,
> too, [the searchPlugins folder under ~/.mozilla/firefox as a tutorial
> here
>
> http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/09/how-i-created-my-first-firefox-search-plugin-in-20-minutes/
> suggested.
>
> Now as per these, i should be able to see my search plugin under the
> dropdown menu when i restart firefox.
> That however does not happen.
>
> What is going wrong here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Priya.
> --
> The reward for hardwork is only more hardwork. Everything else comes
> under side-effects.
> Priya Venkateshan,
> IV B.Tech, InfoTech,
> NITK Suratkal
> Blogging at http://thenitknumbskulls.wordpress.com
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-- 
--Tricia