[Mycroft] Search-Plugins shipping with Mozilla Suite?

Matthew A. McGuigan mmcguigan at webnugget.com
Fri Jan 16 23:04:47 EST 2004


This bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231203

Got me looking at the plugins that come pre-installed with Mozilla and I 
found some errors or omissions in the code.

bugzilla.src has no resultItemEnd tag or searchForm.
mozilla.src has no description.
lxrmozilla.src has no description, resutItem's.
askjeeves.src has no searchForm, browser section.
google.src has no browser section or searchForm.
dmoz.src has no searchform, resultItemEnd tags.

None of them contain sourceid's; however, most of them were coded before 
the sourceid tag became standard.

browserResultType is missing in a few of them as well, I know it is 
needed if you have a "category" result.  I'm not certain that it is a 
needed tag if all you have is a single "result" interpret section. 

The missing browser sections could cause a problem as web sites change.

Most of these omissions do not cause errors in the results. However I 
think the code in the plugins, that are included in Mozilla, should be 
more consistent.

I filed this bug.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231217






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