- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:50:05 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Its more applicable for Web Applications or just sites in general: an > automagical way to point to a search control would be very, very handy. > [...] > > 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? > > For most free text simple searches, this is more than possible. In Firefox you can already create a search keyword by right-clicking a search form field and choosing the relevant option, so apparently existing pages can already support this. So I don't think it would be necessary to add anything to HTML to support this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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