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Hi all,
Knife steel chart now has Firefox search extension - knife steel search
Works for FF 2.0 and above.
In short, you can quickly select steel search as a search engine, and execute search which will go directly to knife steel chart search box. Simply put, you don't have to go to steel chart first, run search form anywhere.
To add the search engine, go to any of the pages under /steels directory, e.g. Knife Steel Chart, Steel comparison graph page, any alloy page, Steel resourced index page etc...
Click on the firefox search engine dropdown and at the end you should see "Add Knife Steel Search" at the bottom of the dropdown window. That's it.
After that, you can select the Steel search engine, using mouse click (or Ctrl+K on windows, dunno about macs) and type in the search string. Suggestions also work, as you start typing, top 10 or so suggestions are displayed.
Given firefox's limited implementation of the opensearch spec, suggestions are not handled as they should be, so whatever you type goes as a search string into steel chart search engine and you get the resulting chart.
In the future, once firefox adds normal support (there'e a bug open since 2007), clicking on the suggestion will go straight to the alloy info page.
I'll be looking into other browsers as well. IE8 and higher should have better support and so should be the case with Chrome and opera.
* and ? wildcards are supported in the search box, not for suggestions though, but I'll add that support soon.
Any feedback is appreciated
Knife steel chart now has Firefox search extension - knife steel search
Works for FF 2.0 and above.In short, you can quickly select steel search as a search engine, and execute search which will go directly to knife steel chart search box. Simply put, you don't have to go to steel chart first, run search form anywhere.
To add the search engine, go to any of the pages under /steels directory, e.g. Knife Steel Chart, Steel comparison graph page, any alloy page, Steel resourced index page etc...
Click on the firefox search engine dropdown and at the end you should see "Add Knife Steel Search" at the bottom of the dropdown window. That's it.
After that, you can select the Steel search engine, using mouse click (or Ctrl+K on windows, dunno about macs) and type in the search string. Suggestions also work, as you start typing, top 10 or so suggestions are displayed.
Given firefox's limited implementation of the opensearch spec, suggestions are not handled as they should be, so whatever you type goes as a search string into steel chart search engine and you get the resulting chart.
In the future, once firefox adds normal support (there'e a bug open since 2007), clicking on the suggestion will go straight to the alloy info page.
I'll be looking into other browsers as well. IE8 and higher should have better support and so should be the case with Chrome and opera.
* and ? wildcards are supported in the search box, not for suggestions though, but I'll add that support soon.
Any feedback is appreciated
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