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=== Address Bar ===
Current Capabilities:
* Drag and drop search
* Ability to browse by name from address bar (keyword.URL)
Capabilities in other browsers:
* Customized keyword web searches - opera [http://wiki.mozilla.org/CFA/Search-Research#Address_Bar_2 link]
* URL alias - maxthon
* Search bookmarks and history from Address Bar - IE
Additional features:
* Unified search - results include bookmarks, URL history, search history and the web
* Autocomplete keywords
Conclusions:
* When adding a search engine to Opera, we are able to create a keyword for using it.  It notifies if a keyword is already being used.  Very convenient!  Also, when typing a keyword in Opera, there are visual cues to let the user know beforehand which page would be displayed.
* Some browsers such as Maxthon and Safari w/ Sogudi allow users to add keywords for specific sites that are not search engines.
* IE suggests bookmarks and history when users type in the address bar while all other sites only suggest history.
* There are no unified searches because the address bar and search bar are separate in every browser.


=== Search Bar ===  
=== Search Bar ===  

Revision as of 01:55, 27 June 2007

« Comparative Feature Analyses
« Search Notes

General Browser Capabilities



Search Bar

Current Capabilities:

  • highlight entire search field when clicking in the box
  • drag and drop search
  • highlight, right-click, and search
  • button information on mouse-over

Upcoming Capabilities:

  • Resizable search bar (Neil Deakin) - FF3 P2

Features on other browsers:

  • SnapBack - safari
  • button to clear search field - safari
  • search this site - camino
  • Search bookmarks and history from Search Bar - flock
  • wrap up feature for search engines, to search all at once - maxthon

Additional features:

  • keyword web searches
  • support for multiple search boxes - Groowe Search Toolbar - FF add-on
  • site-specific search using search box - google
  • targeted search options: audio/video podcast, photo, code, technorati searches

Search Results

Current Capabilities:

  • show recent searches/search history
  • offer suggestions to autocomplete searches - FF2
  • google calculator suggestions in search box - FF
  • display search results in this tab
  • Rich search results (Gavin Sharp) - FF3 P3
  • display in new tab
  • display in new window
  • display in sidebar
  • preview search results - safari
  • show matching bookmarks when searching - flock

Search this Page

  • search on webpage
  • highlight search text on webpage
  • match case of search text on webpage
  • search for text when i start typing (quick find)
  • dim background on search w/in webpage - safari
  • match whole word only on search w/in page - opera
  • option to search in current window, local files, internet, web cache - iCab
  • option to search 2 search engines at once - iCab
  • search and replace - omniweb
  • search for regular expressions - omniweb
  • find in all tabs - shiira

Other

  • writing direction in search and location bar - safari
  • user profile to save search and other settings

Screenshots

Address Bar

iCab:

AB-shortcut-iCab.jpg

OmniWeb:

AB-shortcut-Omniweb.jpg

Opera:

AB-shortcut-Opera.jpg

Safari:

AB-shortcut-Safari.jpg

Internet Explorer:

ABsearchbookmarkIE.JPG

SeaMonkey:

ABoptionsSeaMonkey.jpg

Search Bar

Safari SnapBack button takes you back to search results:

SBsnapbackSafari.JPG

Safari button clears the search field:

SBclearsearchSafari.JPG

Google Toolbar Search Bar settings:

SearchBar-settings-Google.JPG

Camino Search this site:

SBsearchthissiteCamino.jpg

Search Results

Flock:

SReverythingFlock.jpg

iCab:

SRhistoryiCab.jpg

Search this Page

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