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howto shopping wallet via:incredulous 2007 Apr 8, 8:35Del.icio.us does cool things with videos, music, and images that you post to del.icio.us. I haven't seen this previously because I'm generally posting a page containing these things to get context...
oh well.
delicious howto reference tag tagging video images 2007 Apr 8, 3:05Shortcut Tag?
I just saw this on
another user's delicious links:
a link to ESV search that's
tagged with, among other things, "shortcut:esv". When viewed on del.icio.us there's a text box that lets you search using that link. I hadn't seen this before, but it seems pretty cool and I'm
surprised I hadn't seen it previously. A delicious post with such a tag ends up looking like the following:
I tried searching for information on this and I've found
other delicious users doing the same thing,
but nothing about the tag itself. If you know any information especially official information from del.icio.us itself please post links in reply to this post. So without further preface here's what
I've learned about the del.icio.us shortcut tag.
How-to
To get a search box in your del.icio.us links make a post that satisfies the following requirements:
- One of the tags must begin with the text 'shortcut:'. You can have more text following that in the tag if you like but it must at least start with 'shortcut:'.
- The 'url' you post must be a shortcut url rather than an actual URL. It must contain a '%s' with a lowercase 's'. When you enter text into the textbox on the del.icio.us page the text will
replace the '%s' after being percent-encoded. For example 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s' is the shortcut url for Google and if you type 'foo bar' into the textbox the URI you will
navigate to would be 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=foo%20bar'.
Complaints
This is neat but I do have a few complaints:
- The text from the textbox is percent-encoded before replacing the '%s'. Most sites use application/x-www-form-urlencoded
which encodes spaces as '+' rather than '%20'.
- The shortcut url format seems to be taken from Mozilla's Firefox Custom Keywords. Its a shame it wasn't based on something more
adaptable like the OpenSearch URL template syntax.
- A '%s' in the url means technically what you're submitting to del.icio.us isn't a URI as defined by the standard.
- Allowing text after 'shortcut:' means you can't look at all of a user's shortcut using this tag.
The next step is to create a tool to sync my
IE7 search providers with my shortcuts saved to delicious...
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