Bug 128356
| Summary: | [request] add Firefox plugin for FreeBSD manual pages | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | ws | ||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc personally, I do not think we're distributing such things; as this is Firefox specific, is it better to have this being hosted on Mozilla add-ons? Over to doc maintainers for further decision what to do about this... I like this, and I think it would make sense to host something like
this somewhere on freebsd.org, but I'm not sure this is the best
solution.
This provides me with a dropdown freebsd icon on the search box in my
Firefox browser. I expect to be able to type search terms that match
single-line fields of open PRs in such a field, but instead it only
works if I enter the exact PR number of something I am looking for. I
don't think that is what people would expect from a search bar.
Can you update the patch to search single-line fields of open PRs instead?
- Murray
State Changed From-To: open->suspended It has been almost a year, without visible information. I'll suspend the ticket till someone can update the patch to make it possible to search a online summary. State Changed From-To: suspended->closed wishlist PR State Changed From-To: closed->open the idea is still worthwhile and there is a patch that partially functions - reopen wishlist PR without activity. It seems a shame to abandon this without further investigation. Perhaps this idea has been overlooked by people who could take it further because of the current description isolating it to Firefox? If I have understood this correctly it is actually an implementation of OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org) and is supported by major browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Yandex.Browser according to: http://www.opensearch.org/Community/OpenSearch_search_clients and also Safari according to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch At first glance it looks like it could make a useful adjunct to the current search facilities. Perhaps with a different summary it might draw some useful attention to at least consider how worthwhile it might be. (The only PRs I found mentioning OpenSearch are ports-related). (clarifying my previous comment) At first glance it looks like it could make a useful adjunct to the current search facilities - possibly across the whole website (not just man pages). |
Proposed is a Firefox Browser search plugin (extension) to simplify the access to FreeBSD manual pages. Fix: The attached freebsd.xml file must be stored on the server and this JavaScript must be called: window.external.AddSearchProvider('freebsd.xml') Patch attached with submission follows: