Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery

re: Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery

Michael Fagan — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:03:40 GMT

one small quibble: ShortName is limited to 16 characters, you should be using LongName. Otherwise, excellent post.

re: Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery

Heath Stewart — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:12:53 GMT

Michael, thanks for pointing that out. I'll get the post and the OpenSearch descriptions fixed. For folks at home tuning in, see http://opensearch.a9.com/spec/1.1/description/#shortname for what Michael mentioned.

If only I would've had a "not-so-user-friendly-but-geeky" XML schema. I haven't been able to find one on the OpenSearch site. Has anyone seen one? Documenting XML should be through schemas but certainly more user-friendly descriptions like the specification link I posted are genuinely helpful.

That's still no excuse for missing that constraint, though. Thanks, Michael.

re: Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery

Michael Fagan — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:21:11 GMT

I'm not aware of any XML schema for OpenSearch yet, but if you created one I'm sure they'd add it to the website.

Blog Skin Updates

Aaron's Blog — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:59:55 GMT

The awesome Health Stewart has graciously let me plagiarise his custom CSS to help me make my blog look

Better Searching with Live Search and OpenSearch Discovery

Heath Stewart's Blog — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:14:08 GMT

Sometime back I updated my blog to take advantage of Internet Explorer 7 by providing an OpenSearch discovery