- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:03:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote: > On 30 Oct, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > ... > > http://mycroft.mozdev.org/requests.html > > Has over 200 open requests for search plugins. Why is it impossible to > > automagically detect favicon, and search form, and create the plugin > > on the fly? > > ... > > It's not impossible; AcidSearch does it, for example. > <http://pozytron.com/?acidsearch#customizing> Indeed Firefox does it too (right click on a search field and it will give you an option to add a keyword search bookmark). > But that's not really much to do with Web Applications, IMO. More to the point, I don't really see what needs to be added. The "favicon" feature will be described (as rel="icon"), forms are already described (<form> et al), what else does one need? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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