{"id":2453,"date":"2006-02-08T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2006\/02\/08\/blog-customizations-part-4-opensearch-discovery\/"},"modified":"2006-02-08T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T19:21:00","slug":"blog-customizations-part-4-opensearch-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/blog-customizations-part-4-opensearch-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of extensibility, which is why I was excited to see in a recent blog post on the IE Blog<\/a> about OpenSearch discovery<\/a> using <link\/> elements. OpenSearch<\/a> is a collection of XML schemas and extensions to RSS that enables clients like Internet Explorer to interact with search results in order to discover, query, and parse search results in a standard way.<\/p>\n

Web sites can add new search providers using window.external.AddSearchProvider<\/code> in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview<\/a>. I’m not naive enough to think anyone would want a permanent provider listing for my blog, but I have again customized this blog<\/a> to add two <link\/> elements that allow IE7 Beta 2 Preview to use the same search box to search both my and MSDN’s blog content. Below is the result of this new customization.<\/p>\n

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Since I have limited ability to customize my blog I have had to take advantage of the fact that Internet Explorer currently accepts <link\/> tags in the body. The elements are simply the following:<\/p>\n

<<\/font>link<\/font> <\/font>rel<\/font>=<\/font>“search<\/font>“ <\/font>title<\/font>=<\/font>“Heath Stewart’s Blog<\/font>“ <\/font>href<\/font>=<\/font>“http:\/\/hstewart.members.winisp.net\/search\/heaths.xml<\/font>“ <\/font>type<\/font>=<\/font>“application\/opensearchdescription+xml<\/font>“ \/>
<<\/font>link<\/font> <\/font>rel<\/font>=<\/font>“search<\/font>“ <\/font>title<\/font>=<\/font>“MSDN Blogs<\/font>“ <\/font>href<\/font>=<\/font>“http:\/\/hstewart.members.winisp.net\/search\/msdn.xml<\/font>“ <\/font>type<\/font>=<\/font>“application\/opensearchdescription+xml<\/font>“ \/><\/font><\/p>\n

OpenSearch Descriptions are quite simple. The content of the first URL above follows:<\/p>\n

<?<\/font>xml<\/font> <\/font>version<\/font>=<\/font>“1.0<\/font>“?>
<<\/font>OpenSearchDescription<\/font> <\/font>xmlns<\/font>=<\/font>“http:\/\/a9.com\/-\/spec\/opensearch\/1.1\/<\/font>“>
    <<\/font>ShortName<\/font>><\/font>Heath Stewart<\/<\/font>ShortName<\/font>>
    <<\/font>Description<\/font>><\/font>Search Heath Stewart’s Blog<\/<\/font>Description<\/font>>
    <<\/font>Url<\/font> <\/font>type<\/font>=<\/font>“text\/html<\/font>“ <\/font>template<\/font>=<\/font>“http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/search.aspx?q={searchTerms}<\/font>&amp;<\/font>p={startPage}<\/font>“ \/>
    <LongName<\/font>><\/font>Heath Stewart’s Blog<\/font><\/<\/font>LongName<\/font>><\/font>
<\/<\/font>OpenSearchDescription<\/font>> <\/font><\/p>\n

Consider adding OpenSearch to your site. See http:\/\/opensearch.a9.com\/<\/a> for more information.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of extensibility, which is why I was excited to see in a recent blog post on the IE Blog about OpenSearch discovery using <link\/> elements. OpenSearch is a collection of XML schemas and extensions to RSS that enables clients like Internet Explorer to interact with search results in order to discover, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-customizations"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

I’m a big fan of extensibility, which is why I was excited to see in a recent blog post on the IE Blog about OpenSearch discovery using <link\/> elements. OpenSearch is a collection of XML schemas and extensions to RSS that enables clients like Internet Explorer to interact with search results in order to discover, […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}