Re: non-commit: abiword-plugins: rewrite url plug-ins

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Francis James Franklin wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:22:04 +0000
> From: Francis James Franklin <postmaster@alinameridon.plus.com>
> To: AbiWord Dev list <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: non-commit: abiword-plugins: rewrite url plug-ins
>
>
> Hi,
>
> As you say, it would be easy to merge the three plugins. I chose not to
> because keeping them separate allows the user load/unload them
> selectively, and because removing two plugins seems a bit drastic
> before we branch.
>
> In Bug 4842 Alan suggested the user should be able to specify a URL of
> the form:
> http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/findword?query_type=word&queryword=%s
> where I presume the %s gets replaced by our word list.

That's right, %s is the variable used by Mozilla to indicated keywords to
be replaced and I thought it might make sense to use something similar.

- Alan
Received on Sun Nov 28 19:11:03 2004