[Needlesearch] Feature Request: Opera-like short search

[Vladislav Duma]

Belgabor wrote:

>My idea goes like this:
>1) Generate a html/javascript stub for the search engine similar to the
>sample attached
>2) Put it in some default location. I'd say to put it in some subdir of the
>users profile so it can be accessed by chrome://... I couldn't get this to
>work, but I'm also a mozilla development newbie... Probably the dir has to
>be registered in the rdf?
>3) Generate a bookmark somewhere that points to it (e.g.
>chrome://search/google.html?%s) with an apropriate keyword.
>4) voilá =)

Well, this is quite an unusual approach.
What I see here is:
1. Your proposal, as I understand it, is then to change the
Needlesearch's input scheme: from extra input field in the toolbar to
the location bar. This looks to me as a pleasant and reasonable feature,
since you won't need most of the time an extra toolbar on the screen
(which as usually takes up some precious space).
2. We don't need to store a html stub page for it, since javascript
bookmarks (so-called /bookmarklets/) are allowed as well. You can look
at the (very useful) examples of such bookmarks at Jesse Ruderman's
website <http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/>. So, we can generate
the bookmarklet, thus saving on implementing tricks with chrome
modifications.
3. Both solutions -- bookmarklets and chrome:// page -- rely on
javascript being switched on. This is not always true, and I don't see
an easy workaround.

>On a further note it would be great for the firefox users if the
>NeedleSearch toolbar could be made to integrate with the customisation
>feature of firefox. What I'm getting at is if it could be made to work like
>I proposed the only buttons truely needed to make it work would be 'add' and
>'edit', which could easily be moved into an other toolbar =)

...which then needn't be all the time on the screen, you'll need to make
it visible (Ctrl-F9) before adding/editing, do the job and make it
invisible back.

Good idea, really.

Sincerely yours,
Vladislav.