Forum:Supporting searches from the search bars of popular browsers

I would like to allow users to search from the search bar of common browsers. According to Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox at the Mozilla Developer Center, OpenSearch plugins, if done right, are also compatible with IE 7. (The article doesn't mention compatibility with the Google bar so that is unknown.)

The problem is that I don't understand push vs. get or many of the other topics in the article. Could someone help out? What I have so far is shown in the box below. I have already substituted the favicon image I want. I found a utility that coverts PNGs to the required Base64 format. Now if there was one to convert to ICO...

  Christian Music Wiki Christian Music Wiki is an attempt to list all the Christian Music out there. inputEncoding data:image/x-icon;base64,data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAAOpgAABdwnLpRPAAAAEBJREFUOE9jZGj4z0AaAGrARBAjsEvRVwMuzyC7AsWhJGuAm0RdTwODDwNBbcAqhakaKDKqATWssIQp1nCDCQIAO2q7K05GmJQAAAAASUVORK5CYII%3D   ...    searchFormURL</moz:SearchForm> </OpenSearchDescription> Will (Talk - contribs) 07:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * That's POST vs. GET. GET comes from the text after the ? and before the # in the url in your address bar. And POST is what most html forms such as the editbox here on wikia use to send information to the server. The main difference is POST is hidden from the user and has a larger limit of size. While GET can be sent from anywhere while POST needs a form or a script to handle it. GIMP can do .ico's PS: Hope you don't mind the overflow: auto; I added to the pre. A little extra size is fine with me. But that one's more than 2x the screen size. The encoding is UTF-8. You trying to combine this with Google Search, the wiki search engine, or the Wikia search engine? 12:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)