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April 20, 2004

Smart Keywords Get Smarter

I've just checked in support for http-POST style forms and smart keywords - basically now you'll be able to associate smart keywords with forms that use the POST method instead of GET. Just use the UI in tomorrow's builds as you would to add a keyword to a GET form. The storage of the information in the bookmarks file is slightly different - the data is stored in a POST_DATA field on bookmarks items, application/x-www-form-urlencoded with the user field replaced with %s, like the appropriate field in GET urls.

Enjoy!

Posted by ben at April 20, 2004 3:11 AM

Comments

This seems to be problematic; e.g.

http://search.suprnova.org ; right click + add keyword : OK. Then going : keyword string in the address bar fails to do a search.

Posted by: Tom at April 20, 2004 6:58 PM

Great feature - can't wait to try it out.

Posted by: Bo at April 20, 2004 9:00 PM

Tom - try it with a build from 4/21 on. It should work now.

Posted by: Ben at April 21, 2004 1:55 AM

This indeed is very nice, but something between early 17th and 21st broke one of my favorite extensions, SmartSearch. It does a google search for the keyword and the selected text instead of triggering the Smart Keyword search.

Posted by: Elen at April 22, 2004 3:48 AM

Great addition!

Posted by: Jesse at April 30, 2004 6:00 AM

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