IE7: Flickr tag search in the Search bar
In the latest IE7 beta, it's simple to add a search provider to the new integrated Search bar using OpenSearch description documents and A9's OpenSearch specification. You just link an onClick event to window.external.AddSearchProvider('URL') where URL is the link to the OpenSearch description document (see this Microsoft page for more info). I think the spec and the IE implementation actually expect some kind of formatted XML back.
As far as I know, Flickr doesn't support the OpenSearch spec, but I but I put together a description document that just sticks your search term into the Flickr search results URL. You can add it to your IE7 search bar by clicking here. It's a simple one-term search (if you put two terms in, Flickr just concats them). The XML for the OpenSearch description doc looks like this:
As far as I know, Flickr doesn't support the OpenSearch spec, but I but I put together a description document that just sticks your search term into the Flickr search results URL. You can add it to your IE7 search bar by clicking here. It's a simple one-term search (if you put two terms in, Flickr just concats them). The XML for the OpenSearch description doc looks like this:
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>Flickr</ShortName>
<Description>Search for pictures on Flickr</Description>
<Url type="text/html"
template="http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/tags:{searchTerms}/tagmode:all/"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>
