The latest Chaucery quiz has been released. Country Bumpkin asks you to identify a country based on a satellite image of it and its surroundings. If nothing else, you get to view some nice scenery.
It's quite a lot more browser-intensive than my usual offerings, but I think the end result is worth it.
I have written an OpenSearch plugin to simplify searching the people directory of The University of Western Australia. It works in most modern browsers (not six-year-old Internet Explorer 6).
The Mozilla instructions also do not indicate any option other than encoding the search icon within the xml file itself, using Data:URI. In fact, a URL to an external image file is perfectly acceptable, such as:
<Image height="16" width="16" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" >http://example.com/websearch.ico</Image>.
Whilst it's nice to have the plugin file completely self-contained, Internet Explorer, even up to version 7, does not support Data:URI. However, as far as I can tell, IE does not support OpenSearch image icons at all anyway, so this point is possibly moot.
Who knew that reigning over Great Britain was so dangerous?
