I’ve been meaning to point out (and steal from) Dave Pattern’s post on tipping off IE7 (and other browsers soon too, hopefully) to available OpenSearch targets for some time now. I haven’t had time to do the stealing, so I’ll have to settle for pointing it out while it’s still news.
What’s the trick? As Dave explains, you put a link in the <head> section of your pages like this:
<link rel=“search”
When IE7 finds that, it’ll offer you a chance to add the new search target. The screenshots at Dave’s site show the whole thing.
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Posted March 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson Libraries & Networked Information . Tags: autodiscovery , dave pattern , davey p , ie7 , opensearch , opensearch autodiscovery , search api .
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[...] Now, if you’ve got the beta of IE 7, you can see how it’s extending beyond server-side aggregators and into client software. Even better, you can see how this is becoming automigical via autodiscovery. [...]