Steroid Browser Search Bar - Twievser Twitter Client

About Open Search and Visual Search

The quick browser search bar should be used for searching. In 95% this is Google or Yandex. Although, you can search for any specifically taken site, if its owner bolts the interface in the OpenSearch format.

It's very simple - when you press Enter, the client browser goes to the generated address of the form mysite.ru/search?q={something} mysite.ru/search?q={something} . Already during a set of a search query, we can receive hints in the form of a drop-down list, which is formed by the server in JSON format. All this works great, for example, in Firefox.

One of the main features of Internet Explorer 8 is Visual Search - in general, the same Open Search, but in XML format with advanced features. Tips can be categorized, contain short descriptions and images, and also show previews of the result in a small window.
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And what if to approach this line on the other hand?

I recently wrote TwIEVSer .


Twitter has a very good API and a lot of client implementations, especially in PHP.

Idea: we take a browser that supports displaying search hints when typing (sadzhestov), ​​and in response to the request “show me my tweet” we will issue a list of your friends' latest messages. When writing "post in my mouth feet" send a message to your twitter. We just need to agree on which character or set of characters will indicate the end of input, so as not to press the input and not leave the current page.

Works. Especially in IE8.

I must say at once that the main motivator for writing something like this was the previously announced add-on contest for IE8 .

Search for a specific site

As for the visual search, first of all I thought:

• Few people turn off their main search engine (google / yandex / etz)
• Binding to a specific site we limit ourselves to its audience.

Learn more about inside-site search. Ok, everyone has a few favorite sites. Tell me honestly, do you use search on them more often than in the same Google / Yandex?
There are icons in IE8, but switching between them is by no means fast - you need to use a mouse.

In Google Chrome, this problem was solved as follows: Search prefix + tab. In the opera space. Very comfortably. Why not repeat?

Outside, both our search service and Visual Search “big search” look almost the same. So let’s when typing “g slippers from moss” by the user to give Google search results for the query “moss slippers”. :)

Now let's use this NOT for the intended purpose.

Twitter message length is limited to 140 characters. One post looks like a set of name-avatar-message. It is quite possible to attract to the search tips, and in the case of IE8 everything is just in chocolate - we will show both the avatar, the nickname and the message. :)

TwIEVSer - Tw [Internet Explorer Visual Search] er

The subject is installed on the server, “pretends” to be a search service and allows you to use Twitter. At the moment, you can:

• Read tweet
• Write to twitter, write private messages
• Login-login
• Rob Cow

Login and password are transmitted to the Twitter server in the clear, so attentive users immediately suspect something is wrong - "PHP script, installed somewhere at the devil on the horns, will know my password!". That's right, so the script can be downloaded and installed.

Login and password can be set explicitly in the script, and you can log in directly from the browser by typing l login password-- in the search, without pressing enter. "-" - terminator, symbolizing the end of the input, it is also used when writing a message. At the same time, the login and password are stored in the "encrypted" Cookie.

Underwater rocks

Most will be the first to crush enter and redirect to twitter.com (this is how the script behaves). But if you carefully read the first couple of paragraphs of the description - it will be much easier.

Slow twitter is slow. You probably often long waited until it is loaded. A very important characteristic of search sudzhestov - instant issue . Plus, we have the overhead of communication Twitter - php-script - browser.
Firefox, to all appearances, does not like to wait any longer than one second and simply does not give anything away. IE8 more tolerant. :)

In the settings of the script, you can set the default behavior. Initially it was “write to twitter”. After several hours of debugging, I stumbled upon several times that trying to search something in Google was making a new post on Twitter . :) Therefore, I still suggest using the “big search” by default.

Further development of the script

Of course, for the most part this is Prover of Existential. But my friends liked the idea. If you set the default Yandex and from time to time, without being distracted by third-party clients or twitter.com, read your tweet or update your status - this thing has a right to life . If someone will seriously use the script, let me know, I will be happy to develop it further (especially if I win the prize at the competition.: D xbox is, there is no place to connect.).

For example, you can add actions - searching, viewing a specific user's tape, reading your personal messages, deleting the last post ... You can do a PHP script self-update (it already checks for new versions), configuring via the web interface, encrypting passwords in a cookie through a private-open key (lol).

Today, while I was at work, I was happy to use the subject for its intended purpose.

Into the concession

This is just one example of a non-standard approach to using the browser search bar. But already implemented.

If you like it, or you are even going to use IT, you can vote for me on the website ReMIX a (cheerz).

PS Especially in order to avoid habraeffekt put the public version of the script on several temporary servers. Please read the description before use - this is NOT a copy-paste.
Bugs, of course, there is! I will correct. :)

@varyen