Post by thread:[OT]: Digikey search plugin for Mozilla and Firefo

Hi all.... I hacked together a Mozilla/Firefox search plugin that will allow you to do Digikey inventory searches from within the search box in those two browsers. Is this of interest to anyone else? If so, I'll throw it on a web page and submit it as a registered plugin. -marc P.S: I have no commercial ties with Digikey -- I just thought it would be way more convenient to type in a search box rather than their webpage. P.P.S: I can localize the plugin for U.S., Canadian, German, U.K., and Japan pricing...currently I have it working in US$ and CDN$. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Probably should have mentioned the plugin will also work with Netscape 7 ;-) On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Marc Nicholas wrote: {Quote hidden}> Hi all.... > > I hacked together a Mozilla/Firefox search plugin that will allow you to > do Digikey inventory searches from within the search box in those two > browsers. > > Is this of interest to anyone else? If so, I'll throw it on a web page and > submit it as a registered plugin. > > -marc > > P.S: I have no commercial ties with Digikey -- I just thought it would be > way more convenient to type in a search box rather than their webpage. > > P.P.S: I can localize the plugin for U.S., Canadian, German, U.K., and > Japan pricing...currently I have it working in US$ and CDN$. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Marc Nicholas wrote: > Hi all.... > > I hacked together a Mozilla/Firefox search plugin that will allow you to > do Digikey inventory searches from within the search box in those two > browsers. > > Is this of interest to anyone else? If so, I'll throw it on a web page and > submit it as a registered plugin. > > -marc Very interested. -- -- Martin Klingensmith http://infoarchive.net/ http://nnytech.net/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Personally, I'd love to see this Duane On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Marc Nicholas wrote: {Quote hidden}> Hi all.... > > I hacked together a Mozilla/Firefox search plugin that will allow you to > do Digikey inventory searches from within the search box in those two > browsers. > > Is this of interest to anyone else? If so, I'll throw it on a web page and > submit it as a registered plugin. > > -marc > > P.S: I have no commercial ties with Digikey -- I just thought it would be > way more convenient to type in a search box rather than their webpage. > > P.P.S: I can localize the plugin for U.S., Canadian, German, U.K., and > Japan pricing...currently I have it working in US$ and CDN$. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

Marc, On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:07:51 -0400, Marc Nicholas wrote: > Hi all.... > > I hacked together a Mozilla/Firefox search plugin that will allow you to > do Digikey inventory searches from within the search box in those two > browsers. > > Is this of interest to anyone else? If so, I'll throw it on a web page and > submit it as a registered plugin. Yes please! With UK pricing... Would this be adaptable to other suppliers, or does it use some feature that Digi-Key have implemented that won't be available elsewhere? Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Howard... On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Howard Winter wrote: > Yes please! With UK pricing... Okay, no problem. > Would this be adaptable to other suppliers, or does it > use some feature that Digi-Key have implemented that > won't be available elsewhere? It's a feature of the Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox plugin framework, nothing at all to do with Digikey :-) Most website search functions are adaptable...as long as they don't rely heavily on POST forms submission (as the above framework only currently supports GET). I was actually going to knock up another one for Mouser ;-) -marc -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.