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Advanced Mozilla-Search Plugin Documentation.

So, you want to learn more about Mozilla-Search. You've come to the right place. In these documents you will find technical information on the full spectrum of the Mozilla-Search plugin capabilities.  These documents will show you how to work with Mozilla-Search and sometimes how to work around Mozilla-Search to get your Mozilla-Search plugin working the way you want it to.

Mozilla-Search is evolving; we make every effort to remove information that has grown stale in these documents. Please keep in mind while reading these documents that some facts or features may no longer hold true. If you find something that no longer works, is invalid, or is no longer needed. Please let us know by contacting us through the Mycroft Mailing List.

Have you found and documented a feature that is not documented in these pages? Send it to us for inclusion in these documents and we will add your name to the list of contributors for this document.

Before submitting your plugin please take a look at our Checklist for testing your plugin.

Table of Contents

• Quick start guide to creating Mozilla-Search plugins
  • The Mozilla-Search standard
  • Make your first plugin
  • Submit your plugin
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• Introducing the Mozilla-Search plugin
  • Simple plugin examples
  • Advanced plugin examples
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• Installing Mozilla-Search Plugins
  • Installing from a server
  • Installing manually
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• Mozilla-Search Plugin Header information
  • The basics
  • Advanced Header information
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• The <SEARCH> tag information
  • version
  • name
  • description
  • action
  • searchForm
  • queryCharset
  • queryEncoding
  • method
  • optional Apple Sherlock support
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• The <INPUT> tags information
  • user
  • sourceid
  • inputnext and inputprev
    • factor
    • value
  • other <INPUT> tags
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• The <INTERPRET> tag information
  • general channel support
    • bannerStart and bannerEnd.
    • resultListStart and resultListEnd
    • resultItemStart and resultItemEnd
    • relevanceStart and relevanceEnd
    • skiplocal
    • charset
  • shopping channel support
    • priceStart and priceEnd
    • availStart and availEnd
  • news channel support
    • dateStart and dateEnd
  • people channel support
    • nameStart and nameEnd
    • emailStart and emailEnd
  • special browser support
    • browserResultType
  • Using multiple <INTERPRET> tags
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• The <BROWSER> tag information
  • alsomatch
  • update
  • updateIcon
  • updateCheckDays
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

• The icon information
  • Creating a Mozilla-Search Icon
  • How Mozilla-Search uses search icons
  • User Contributed Notes for this section

Additional Documentation

If you can't find the information you are looking for in our documentation, take a look at these useful links to documents not maintained by the Mycroft project or ask other contributors via the Mycroft Mailing List.

• The Search for Mozilla - An Introduction (including numerous screenshots)
• The Search for Mozilla - Technical Information
• Apple Developer Connection
  • Apple Developer Technote 1141: Extending and Controlling Sherlock