Bashy Perlness for generating Favicon text for OpenSearches
echo -n '<Image width="16" height="16">data:image/xicon,' ; perl -ne 's/(.)/"%".unpack("H2",$1)/egs; print' ~/Desktop/favicon.ico ; echo '</Image>'
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How to create a OpenSearch reference for your site (as used by Firefox 2's search box)
Create a file like this one as used for Wikipedia, but that refers to your own site's search:
Then link to it from your pages like so:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"> <ShortName>Wikipedia (English)</ShortName> <Description>Wikipedia (English)</Description> <Image height="16" width="16" type="image/x-icon">http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico</Image> <Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search={searchTerms}"/> <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search={searchTerms}"/> </OpenSearchDescription>
Then link to it from your pages like so:
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/opensearch_desc.php" title="Wikipedia (English)" />
