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tvfollower · Sep 13, 2003, 06:42 PM

I am currently using Windows, and I downloaded TweakUI, which let's you set search prefixes in Internet Explorer. In other words, if I type "am teddy bear" in the address bar, it will automatically run a search for "teddy bear" on Amazon.com, because I told it to use the prefix "am" to run the search "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-7476874-9852745?index=blended&field-keywords=%s"...which is quite convenient. I use dl to search Download.com, cn to search CNET.com, sd to search Slashdot.org, ud to search UrbanDictionary.com, etc.

Is there any equivalent to that, that I could use with Safari?

Xeo · Sep 13, 2003, 06:51 PM

I'm not sure about Safari, but OmniWeb does this, and uses WebCore, so you'd get the best of both worlds by using OmniWeb. Take a look for yourself.

(However, I use Safari exclusively.)

diamondsw · Sep 13, 2003, 06:54 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
I'm not sure about Safari, but OmniWeb does this, and uses WebCore, so you'd get the best of both worlds by using OmniWeb.

(However, I use Safari exclusively.)

Mozilla (and variants like Camino) does this exactly as described.

Safari can do this type of thing via JavaScript bookmarks. I have translation bookmarks set up similarly - for instance, here's Japanese to English, using Babelfish:

javascript:%20document.location=%22http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urlload?lp=ja_en&url=%22+escape(document.locat ion);

When I encounter a Japanese page, I select the bookmark, and it translates it. (BTW, that should be all one line - don't know why the forum is splitting it the way it is.)

I don't recall how at the moment, but there's a way for JavaScript to get the current URL from the location bar. So, rather than typing "am blahblah", you'd type "blahblah" and select the appropriate JavaScript bookmark.

tvfollower · Sep 13, 2003, 07:00 PM

But there's no add-on for Safari to let me do "am blahblah"?

And sorry, I'm a newbie...what is WebCore?

Thanks for the help, peeps!

Xeo · Sep 13, 2003, 09:49 PM

Originally posted by tvfollower:
But there's no add-on for Safari to let me do "am blahblah"?

And sorry, I'm a newbie...what is WebCore?

Thanks for the help, peeps!

WebCore is the rendering engine Apple has made for Safari. It's made available to other developers to use as they wish, without having to code their own rendering engine. So apps like Mail.app and the Help system can render HTML flawlessly with little effort because it uses the same code as Safari. The Omni Group decided to make OmniWeb use this as well, so the difference between OmniWeb and Safari is mostly in the GUI.

There is no add-on that I know of. And like your other thread, this should have been moved sooner. It belongs in the Software forum. I'll move it there now.

tvfollower · Sep 13, 2003, 10:04 PM

Hmm, I just remembered Safari's built-in search bar...

Can that be customized to do, say, Amazon.com searches?

WJMoore · Sep 14, 2003, 07:16 AM

Originally posted by tvfollower:
Hmm, I just remembered Safari's built-in search bar...

Can that be customized to do, say, Amazon.com searches?

Not at the moment.

Diggory Laycock · Sep 14, 2003, 07:51 AM

It's not built-in to Safari - but you might like Huevos

Tsilou B. · Sep 14, 2003, 08:30 AM

If you have the time to set it up, you can use these instructions to make the Safari search field customizable.

works great

Xeo · Sep 14, 2003, 11:37 AM

Originally posted by Tsilou B.:
If you have the time to set it up, you can use these instructions to make the Safari search field customizable.

works great

Nice. I think I'll give that a try later on.

tvfollower · Sep 14, 2003, 03:40 PM

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
It's not built-in to Safari - but you might like Huevos

Nice! Nice! Nice! That's so perfect! I am forever indebted to you!

Orginally posted by Tsilou B.:
If you have the time to set it up, you can use these instructions to make the Safari search field customizable.

works great

Also very nice! I will try that, too!

Thanks peeps!

Xeo · Oct 2, 2003, 04:30 AM

Originally posted by Tsilou B.:
If you have the time to set it up, you can use these instructions to make the Safari search field customizable.

works great

I finally got around to trying this and it's very nice. You have to keep the web server running on your Mac, but that's not a big deal. If Apple let us customize it, that would be even better, but this is filling in that gap for now. I'm already getting used to it. Very cool indeed.