On Friday 11 July 2003 07:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds like a good thread for me to introduce myself. I've been remiss for > not jumping in sooner. I am the one that approached Dave directly about > redistributing the deskbar. My lawyers told me I didn't need to but I > thought it was the right thing to do. In short order one of our HotBot > developers will discuss some of the ideas we have been banetering around. > Below is a synopsis of a couple. Thanks for the kind words about our > integrity.
Thanks again, it's generally considered bad karma to fork without mentioning it to the devs. > I am considering integrating some of the functionality (searches) > available within the Deskbar right into the HotBot site. What I mean is > integrating shortcuts into HotBot. I thought this would be a great way of > allowing users to make it "their search engine". Wow, that would be nice from a cross-platform standpoint especially. Theres no such thing as DQSD on Mac OS X or Linux. Also on undomesticated computers where one hasn't managed to sneak DQSD onto yet (labs, etc.). I'd imagine you wouldn't be able to use the javascript coding in DQSD. I'd personally rather you didn't try: javascript hacks are mostly ugly for websites and it would defeat the whole crossplatform advantage. You'd be ditto'ing the large base of ideas and search archive which still sounds great. This would compel me to add Hotbot to my Firebird quicksearch bar for sure. > We have also been discussing devising a meta shortcut interface that would > allow multiple "like" searches to be be strung together and presented on a > tabbed interface. We could create a server-side page/API that accepts form > post data and constructs the tabs with hyperlinks. We would create another > "search XML" file that strings together all the data necessary to send to > our page. Perhaps we would start a convention to start the name of the > file with "m", like "mQt" for "multiple or meta quote". Other logical > times you might want the meta might be for: > -- [ mWeb ] Web Searching (of course that's why you have HotBot though ;-) > -- [ mNews ] News > -- [ mWp ] White Pages > -- [ mDir ] Directions > -- [ mDld ] Downloads > -- [ mRef ] Reference (that strung together Dictionary, Thesaurus, > Encyclopedia) > ...others surely too Sounds interesting, have to wait and see on the implementation to see whether it'll be really useful or not. Thadk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
