1203413 - dxr should offer opensearch plugin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 813521

(Webtools Graveyard :: DXR, defect)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Websites can offer to install an opensearch plugin, which adds a website as a search provider in the Firefox search box: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox

For instance (if you don't already have it installed) on any https://bugzilla.mozilla.org page you should see see a green "+" in the search bar, and if you click it there is an offer to "Add Bugzilla@Mozilla".

DXR should offer this too, to make it easier to search DXR from Firefox.

Comment 1

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Search suggestions would be really nice as well! However would require some work on the server-side so maybe better as a separate plug (just adding a plain search plugin would be simpler than doing this as well):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Supporting_search_suggestions_in_search_plugins

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to Robert Helmer [:rhelmer] from comment #1)
> work on the server-side so maybe better as a separate plug (just adding a

separate *bug* that is.

Comment 3

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

I think all you really need is this in your HTML output:

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Mozilla DXR" href="dxr.xml">

dxr.xml should contain something along the lines of:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
                       xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
  <ShortName>Mozilla DXR</ShortName>
  <Description>Search engine for Mozilla source code</Description>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
  <Image height="16" width="16" type="image/x-icon">https://dxr.mozilla.org/static/icons/search.png</Image>
  <Url type="text/html" method="get" template="https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q={searchTerms}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>