Re: How to load the Search Sidebar Panel using Javascript?

Brendan Eich wrote:

> Robert Oschler wrote:
>
> > Would you happen to know how to load the Search Sidebar in 
> > Mozilla/Firefox?
> >
> > The Javascript command:
> >
> > open(URL, '_search');
> >
> > works fine under IE, but under Mozilla/Firefox it opens a brand new 
> > window
> > instead of loading the Search Sidebar.
>
> Wrong newsgroup.  See headers.  DOM folks, is there a de-facto standard 
> here worth emulating?

IE documentation here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/open_0.asp
says that _search is supported since IE 5.
A test with Opera 7.50 opens a normal window (well tabbed window with 
Opera's tabbed interface).
I don't remember whether there is any window.open way supported by 
Mozilla/Netscape to open a page in the sidebar, Netscape devedge is down 
where I think there are articles on how to script the sidebar.
xulplanet shows the following nsISidebar interface:
  http://xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsISidebar.html
so if you do
  if (window.sidebar && window.sidebar.addPanel) {
    window.sidebar.addPanel('JavaScript FAQTS', 
'http://JavaScript.FAQTS.com/', '');
  }
Netscape prompts for confirmation whether to add that panel to the sidebar.
There is also the a method addSearchEngine supposed to add a search 
engine panel so I guess that is what the original poster is looking for.

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        Martin Honnen
        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/