I'm real interested in this keyword browsing using internet explorer so I ran a google search and i got as far as reading the article at http://searchenginewatch.com/3381361 and that's it. What do I do next?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Keyword browsing. Maybe folks here already know about this, but I found it quite interesting. I haven't figured out if you could do this in Internet Explorer yet, but I've been experimenting with keyword browsing in FireFox. You can create a keyword for a web site, then instead of either typing the URL into the address bar, or searching through your book marks, you just type the keyword into the address bar. More importantly, you can adjust the URL in the book mark and add a variable into it. Let me give an example. I use www.ninjawords.com because I can't spell to save my life, and sometimes the spell checker doesn't even know what I am talking about. NinjaWords seems pretty good at figuring out what I meant to spell, and it is simply a really fast front-end to wiktionary. Anyway, I can set up a keyword, n, with a URL of www.ninjawords.com/%s Then I I can open FireFox, type: n sprocket And it immediately brings me to the definition page for sprocket. Saves me the time of going to the web page, then typing sprocket into the search field and hitting enter. You can set up keywords for all kinds of sites that take inputs, like google maps, or google calendar. So, if you use google calendar, you could have a keyword, say, cal, setup and then you could just open FireFox and type: cal dinner with Dave and Patty on Friday at 6:00 at their house. Poof, I've just entered that event in my google calendar. www.lifehacker.com had a great article about this, and although I've had to stumble my way through setting up a couple of these key words, it seems pretty useful so far. Does anyone know if this is possible in IE? Not really sure if I care as FireFox is very slowly drawing me in. And IE has been pissing me off recently. But a lot of people prefer IE, so just thought it would be helpful to them if someone knew about keyword browsing there. Of course, maybe I am way far behind the times, and everyone has been doing this for the last couple of years. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected]
