Comments on: SpotlightSiteSearch http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/ Technology and Mac geekery. One part exuberance, two parts obsession. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Collin http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-41778 Collin Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:23:37 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-41778 <div id="quote"> God, how i long for the OS 9 Find.</div> Me too. OS 9's search was very fast, and didn't waste its time on things that were unimportant. I wish Spotlight had the option to turn off metadata searching and simply look for the file name. Generally, I'm not so absent-minded that I can't even rememeber a file name, so that's the extent of my searching needs. Sometimes I do <b>find / -name filename</b> in the Terminal to search only filenames. God, how i long for the OS 9 Find.

Me too. OS 9’s search was very fast, and didn’t waste its time on things that were unimportant. I wish Spotlight had the option to turn off metadata searching and simply look for the file name. Generally, I’m not so absent-minded that I can’t even rememeber a file name, so that’s the extent of my searching needs. Sometimes I do find / -name filename in the Terminal to search only filenames.

]]> By: Bart Hanson http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-41631 Bart Hanson Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:42:17 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-41631 Thankfully this works better than the finder implementation of Spotlight which starts spinning after I enter 2 characters no matter how fast I enter them. I wait 2 minutes until it finds all items (including in the content) that start with the letters "sp", then and only then does the rest of my search string (spotlight) appear and the search starts again finding what I actually want this time. God, how i long for the OS 9 Find. Thankfully this works better than the finder implementation of Spotlight which starts spinning after I enter 2 characters no matter how fast I enter them.
I wait 2 minutes until it finds all items (including in the content) that start with the letters “sp”, then and only then does the rest of my search string (spotlight) appear and the search starts again finding what I actually want this time. God, how i long for the OS 9 Find.

]]> By: Darrell J. Rohl http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-24744 Darrell J. Rohl Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:37:44 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-24744 This is a beautiful search function, Collin! I have just implemented it on the <a href="http://www.globalmoments.org" rel="nofollow">Global Moments in the Levant</a> web site. While I had some problems, especially in regard to getting the CSS to work with my existing styles, and still have a couple kinks to iron out, I'm very pleased with the effect. The 2 biggest problems I had was not getting the spotlight-like effect on search (as Mo Hoyt mentions above) and not having the images displayed. I think you should add the image-related CSS from your header file into the Readme for this package, as well as a note mentioning that the spotlight.js javascript file needs to be loaded in the header as well. This is a beautiful search function, Collin! I have just implemented it on the Global Moments in the Levant web site. While I had some problems, especially in regard to getting the CSS to work with my existing styles, and still have a couple kinks to iron out, I’m very pleased with the effect.

The 2 biggest problems I had was not getting the spotlight-like effect on search (as Mo Hoyt mentions above) and not having the images displayed. I think you should add the image-related CSS from your header file into the Readme for this package, as well as a note mentioning that the spotlight.js javascript file needs to be loaded in the header as well.

]]> By: Mo Hoyt http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-13863 Mo Hoyt Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:47:26 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-13863 Immense search bar, have begun to integrate it into my site but I can't seem to get the livesearch functionality working, so when I type something in, nothing happens unless return is pressed or the spotlight button is clicked, and then it goes to the usual search results page. Any ideas? Immense search bar, have begun to integrate it into my site but I can’t seem to get the livesearch functionality working, so when I type something in, nothing happens unless return is pressed or the spotlight button is clicked, and then it goes to the usual search results page.

Any ideas?

]]> By: MacSwitching.com » Blog Archive » A Spotlight-like search box for your site? http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-3896 MacSwitching.com » Blog Archive » A Spotlight-like search box for your site? Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:14:01 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-3896 [...] Go here to try it out or to BitFlux page where it all started from. [...] [...] Go here to try it out or to BitFlux page where it all started from. [...]

]]> By: Collin http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-2119 Collin Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:14:19 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-2119 Per comments at <a href="http://bartelme.at/journal/264/" rel="nofollow">bartelme.at</a> and info on Apple's <a href="http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor2" rel="nofollow">Safari Developer FAQ</a>, I've updated the HTTP-USER-Agent checking to look for "AppleWebKit" instead of "Safari," so that all applications using WebKit (like NetNewsWire, etc.) display the Spotlight search field. Per comments at bartelme.at and info on Apple’s Safari Developer FAQ, I’ve updated the HTTP-USER-Agent checking to look for “AppleWebKit” instead of “Safari,” so that all applications using WebKit (like NetNewsWire, etc.) display the Spotlight search field.

]]> By: Dan http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-579 Dan Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:10:15 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-579 Very, very fine! Very, very fine!

]]> By: fever606 » Blog Archive » Spotlight Site Seach http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-564 fever606 » Blog Archive » Spotlight Site Seach Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:09:03 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-564 [...] Collin over at Command-Tab is a genius or something… check out the fancy Spotlight-style search action he’s got going on over there! [...] [...] Collin over at Command-Tab is a genius or something… check out the fancy Spotlight-style search action he’s got going on over there! [...]

]]> By: pluto198 http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-562 pluto198 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:37:19 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-562 impressive. nice work. impressive. nice work.

]]> By: About a Nut » Blog Archive » Link-o-rama http://www.command-tab.com/2005/08/14/spotlight-site-search/#comment-560 About a Nut » Blog Archive » Link-o-rama Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:23:29 +0000 http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/spotlight-site-search/#comment-560 [...] Spotlight Seach on blogs? command-tab uses a search field similar to spotlight in osx, where results appear before your eyes. [...] [...] Spotlight Seach on blogs? command-tab uses a search field similar to spotlight in osx, where results appear before your eyes. [...]

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