The TF Wiki

[jaydisc]

I like it enough to have my web browser rigged so I can perform tfwiki searches directly from the address bar.

Great idea!

How do you do that Geminii?

Inspired by Gemeni, I made a bookmarklet for you Digger. If you add this as a Favorite/Bookmark address and put it in your button bar you should get the desired effect:

javascript:theQuery=prompt('TF%20Wiki%20search%20(leave%20blank%20for%20home%20page):');if(theQuery){window.location.href='http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Special:Search?search='%20+%20theQuery+'&go=Go';}else%20if(theQuery==''){window.location.href='http://tfwiki.net/';};

It will pop open a search prompt and when you hit OK, it's like hitting "Go" on the Wiki (I can make it act like "Search" instead if desired). If you leave it blank and hit OK, you just go to the Wiki home page, and if you Cancel, nothing happens.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Great idea!



Inspired by Gemeni, I made a bookmarklet for you Digger. If you add this as a Favorite/Bookmark address and put it in your button bar you should get the desired effect:

javascript:theQuery=prompt('TF%20Wiki%20search%20(leave%20blank%20for%20home%20page):');if(theQuery){window.location.href='http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Special:Search?search='%20+%20theQuery+'&go=Go';}else%20if(theQuery==''){window.location.href='http://tfwiki.net/';};

It will pop open a search prompt and when you hit OK, it's like hitting "Go" on the Wiki (I can make it act like "Search" instead if desired). If you leave it blank and hit OK, you just go to the Wiki home page, and if you Cancel, nothing happens.

Whoa! Appreciated mate but can you just dumb down the instructions a little from the part after...'Inspired by...'

[blackie]

just make a new bookmark dd, and use the code that jay made as the target, ie the website

[llamatron]

TF Wiki? MORE LIKE SEE WHO CAN BE THE FUNNIEST AND TRY TO IMPRESS DAVID WILLIS THE MOST WIKI, AM I RIGHT?

The crazy wacky zany captions and jokes are just too HILARIOUS for me.

[FFN]

The wiki also has a Go! Button sig image/link to use on boards that enable HTML in sigs. It randomly loads a Go! Button for one of our articles. Unfortunately, since most boards don't allow HTML in sigs...

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/A_GoBox_of_your_own!

[Geminii]

How do you do that Geminii?

It's a built-in function in the latest version of Opera. Visit any webpage with a search box, right-click it and choose "Create Search", then supply a keyword. Then, any time you want to do a search without having to navigate to the website first, hotkey to the address bar and type "keyword searchterm".

So I can fire up a blank webbrowser page (much faster than loading the tfu.info main page, and also cuts their server load), and type the "address" of, for instance, tfu megatron in order to get all the Megatron search results.

Opera comes with a ton of these built-in, usually with one-letter keywords. So I can type "g jhiaxus" to Google for jhiaxus, "w Transformers" to search Wikipedia for Transformers, "e MP02" to search eBay for 20th Anniversary Ultra Magnus, etc. I even overwrote the default eBay keyword so it now searches Australian eBay instead of the US.

It also comes with keyword searches for download.com, yahoo, bittorrent, in-page search, amazon.com, Google groups and news etc. I've personally added keyword searches for Youtube, the Transformers Wiki, BBTS, IMDB, eBay search-by-auction-number, and a stack of other sites I visit regularly. All of the entries - including the supplied defaults - can be manually edited, copied, overwritten etc, and there's no limit to the length of the keyword (although short ones are faster to type).

Likewise, Firefox can now do much the same thing. Right-click any WWW search field and choose "Add a keyword for this search". The searches are stored as bookmarks of the corresponding search string URL, and you'll notice all Firefox bookmarks have a keyword field for this. (It can also be used so a keyword brings up any non-search site, too - in that case, any search terms are discarded.)

[roller]

For G1 Axer, the tf wiki mentions something about him crossing over into another continuity. But it doesn't have any references etc

any info?

[FFN]

I believe it might have been info from Hasbro, that G1 Axer and RID Axer are considered to be the same guy. RID Axer's bio states rather ambiguously that he went into a black hole on some sort of rescue mission and hints at the two different names used for Axer's original bike vehicle accessory.

I'll try to get clarification for you.

[Geminii]

http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/Axer/axer.htm ?

[FFN]

I started a discussion on this. Maybe the comments can answer your question.