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Sometime ago, I promised Dennis that I’d record a screencast of how I created the RedMonk Firefox search plugin. On this day of learning to make screencasts then, here it is:

Here are the URLs for sites I used:

• Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox - the overview page that contains, among others things, the XML code to cut-n-paste.
• The data: URI kitchen page - allows you to create the BASE64 encoded version of you’re 16×16 icon.
• RedMonk Google Coop search page - this is the page and I used to generate the URL I pulled apart for the OpenSearch XML file.
• RedMonk’s OpenSearch XML file - the XML file that we use for configuration. Feel free to use it as a template as well ;>

One thing I neglected to mention is that the OpenSearch template provided on the Firefox page is invalid XML: it needs the first line to <?xml version="1.0"?>. You can see that in the RedMonk OpenSearch XML file.

If the screencast and files don’t help out, feel free to contact me and we’ll see what we can do.

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