Comment by damiante
7 hours ago
Do you really need a server implementation for this? Surely you could achieve this with a browser extension that grabs queries which begin with "!" and then has a mapping table of postfixes to query formats?
7 hours ago
Do you really need a server implementation for this? Surely you could achieve this with a browser extension that grabs queries which begin with "!" and then has a mapping table of postfixes to query formats?
I'm the author of this project, and I've actually been using it myself since I started it in 2022. The main reason was that DDG wasn't managing their list at all at the time, and another need was mobile web browsers, where extensions are not really as approachable as on PC. Also, the default "." is way easier to locate than "!" on mobile keyboards, and the prefix is configurable.
Browsers already support programmable search keywords. (Firefox does at least) I‘m using those quite a bit.
For anyone looking for it: here is the documentation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how...
Maybe to support noscript/basic HTML browsers?