Re: Changing the Social Contract of the Web

On 13/03/2013, at 2:35 PM, Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> On 13/03/2013 14:22 , Tobie Langel wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Appelquist Daniel (UK) wrote:
>>>> Actually your example underscores my point
>>>> - because part of the expected experience of the Web is now being able to
>>>> type search terms into some place on the browser chrome (increasingly the
>>>> same place you type addresses) and having search results come up.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes. Yet what if this functionality simply shifted to the OS level?
>> 
>> Users can't tell the difference between something like this at the OS 
>> level or at the browser level. It's "on the computer".
> 
> Precisely my point.
> 
> If OS search has web search built-in, then the OS is the browser.

Maybe. It would need to match apps, urls, and perform search... In a way that does not overload the user. I think this is what Android 2.x tried to do, but for me at least, it didn't feel like a good user experience. 

Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 15:18:48 UTC