LookUP Widget

I've mentioned my astronomy name lookup service before. It builds on the excellent services of Simbad, NED, SkyBot, Wikisky et al.

This evening I hacked together a widget for LookUP. It is now possible to include a search box on your own website and for a user to get results without leaving your site. This is code I hacked together so it may not work (I only tested it in Firefox 3.0.11 on linux). In that respect I have a request dear reader. If you don't mind playing with 'alpha' code, it would be great if you could give it a try and let me know what works and what doesn't. If you can write improvements for it, even better!

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Tuesday 14th Jul 2009 (18:45 BST) | 4 Comments | Permalink

Comments: LookUP Widget

Works great Stuart!

Posted by Megan on Sunday 26th Jul 2009 (03:54 UTC)

gravatarThanks Megan. I think you are the first person to test it.

Posted by Stuart on Sunday 26th Jul 2009 (10:36 UTC)

Very cool widget, Stuart. It is working fine on Firefox on my MacBook. I will try to add it to my astronomy group on FunnelBrain.

http://www.funnelbrain.com/flashcardViewer.php?deck_id=690&needLietner=n&gid=84&bc=gp

Posted by Jack Dennison on Thursday 20th Aug 2009 (18:44 UTC)

I tried this in widget in my Wordpress blog but I couldn't get it to work. I will, however, continue to work on it as this is a very cool widget. I'll let you know how I make out.

Posted by Dan Acker on Saturday 05th Sep 2009 (10:56 UTC)

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