OpenSearch Plugin

I added OpenSearch to a customers intranet application a few weeks ago. It was so simple it’s almost embarrassing to blog a about it. Then, tonight, I found myself trying to remember what exactly I did to enable the OpenSearch plugins for IE7 and Firefox 2? It was so easy that it didn’t really sink into my memory very well. So I decided to add the OpenSearch plugin to my site and document it on my wiki. Maybe now it’ll stick. If not, I know were to find it! Keep in mind the OpenSearch is much deeper than a cool plugin in your browsers search box. OpenSearch is the beginning of standardized searching where the search server can describe how it’s to be searched to the client and then return the results to the client in an XML format.