Mycroft project
Mycroft is an advanced form of SGML specification of the software Sherlock from Apple. It describes the structure of the Mycroft search plugins and is consequently used as the name of the search plugins.
Operation
Browser
Mycroft search plugins of Mozilla -based web browsers can like Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator (version 7), and Beonex Communicator can be used.
These browsers offer either directly in the menu bar (eg Mozilla Firefox) an input field, you can search just with the search plugin currently selected via the. In other browsers like the Mozilla browser search plug-ins can be used via the sidebar, then in a short version of the search results will be displayed immediately.
Programming
The search plug-ins consist of a text file with the extension. Src and an optional icon file, which in the format 16 × 16 pixels must contain an icon. The graphics may be in JPEG, GIF or PNG format and present accordingly has one of the file extensions. Jpg,. Gif or. Png wear.
The. Src file contains the source code of the search plug-ins and is written in an XML / HTML like format. There are four main tags, with which the programmer specifies how and where a search is conducted and how the results are interpreted.
Search
The Search- day will be the bottom declared input and Artist tags. These are listed separately because of their special importance. Most importantly in the Search tag specifying the URI under which the search engine to search the website can be found. In Search- day also be the name under which the plugin should be displayed, and the description given.
Input
In the input tag specifies which GET variables to be passed to the search engine. One of these values is the user-entered search term. Further, other values can be defined statically to make further adjustments to the search engine. They generally correspond to the HTML input tags of the search form on the website of the search engine.
Interpreter
In the Artist tag is used to define how the search results are to be interpreted as soon as the plugin from the sidebar of the browser was called.
Browser
The browser - day is mainly defined under which URIs updates for the plugin can be downloaded, and should be looked like there often for updates.
Meaning of the name
The name Mycroft refers to the brother of the character Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mycroft Holmes. This should be played on the relationship with the Sherlock plug-ins from Apple.