[Mycroft] Conquery thoughts

[Alan Bramley]

localhost at rw-l.nl wrote:
> At 19-1-2004 10:06 +0000, you wrote:
> 
>> I've been looking at the Conquery project, http://conquery.mozdev.org, 
>> and
>> it has come along in leaps and bounds. It now searches on multiple inputs
>> and can use POST as well as GET, and it can use .src search plugins as
>> well as it's own format, .cqr.
>>
>> The project maintainer has also set-up a repository for .cqr search
>> plugins. I was wondering if it was worth either starting to supply .cqr
>> plugins along with the .src plugins on Mycroft or, if people are
>> requesting search plugins for POST queries or multiple inputs, then we
>> could build the .cqr plugin, submit it to Conquery and point people in
>> that direction.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
> 
> 
> I recently looked at that project as well. Personally I would love to 
> see these projects become one. The Conquery project offers something we 
> don't: POST. And we can offer something Conquery doesn't have (yet): 
> 700+ searchplugins.
> I haven't payed any attention in how he made the post work, but to me 
> this sounds like it should be included in Mozilla builds. There is a 
> feature request for this for years now. It would make Mozilla even 
> better. Also, it would make the promotion of Mozilla easier. Now you can 
> include about every searchengine instead of the GET ones only.
> 
> 
> Jarno

I didn't try this so far and I've only looked at the pages and 
screenshots. As you say it can do things we can't but my initial 
reaction was that it looks a bit heavy and complex in comparison to 
Mycroft. I get the feeling that it would almost be as quick to visit the 
target page and do the search from there. Because of this it may 
scare-away the average web surfer. We should not risk sacrificing 
Mycroft's simplicity and ease of use which I'm sure is a major reason 
for it's popularity.

It's also worth taking a moment to look at our 'WontFix' list. First, 
it's tiny in comparison to the number of successful plugins and secondly 
some of these are caused by Frames, SessionID's and Java. I don't now if 
Conquery could handle these problems? Also, note that we are managing to 
produce a significant number of plugins which still work successfully 
inspite of them being POSTS.

We should see if anything can learned here but remember that we do have 
a very popular and sucessful product in Mycroft and we should be careful 
not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater".

Alan