A Weekend of Compromise
In the end I've opted for a weekend of compromise. Last night I went to the local for a couple of pints with some of the neighbours. Today I'll have a big geek-out and tomorrow I'll probably do something like get round to putting a door on the downstairs toilet, which should put an end to the girls' cries of "I'm weeing!" whenever they want to warn me not to come out of my room.
Before I went out last night I managed to refresh this database with template 6.3. Technically, this still made it a year to the day since 6.0. You'll be hard-pushed to tell the difference really - most of the changes are invisible. Although there is the new IE 7 search feature.
IE 7 now uses A9's OpenSearch (something else I want to have a play with). Whereas you might expect Microsoft to use a proprietary solution they've opted for open source and allowed anybody to add their own search provider.
Doing so is fairly simple and described in detail here. All I needed to add to this site was this XML.
Hope you find it useful. Well, when you upgrade to IE 7 that is.
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What? only 12 hours in front of a PC? You slacking Jake? ;-)
I think I knocked down a couple of 16 or 17 hr sessions last week, but sadly, very little of it was for a good 'geek-out', mostly trying to get things done so I can justify some invoices. :-)
Funny, one year since you introduce your very handy advanced search page and I'm just getting round to crafting one for datatribe. I guess a year behind the leader of the pack ain't so bad.
Did you wind up doing a clean install of IE 7 or still running under the unorthodoxed method? Has it been as buggy as I've heard from other sources (which is to say "very")?