- From: Leons Petrazickis <leons.petrazickis@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:57:16 -0400
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote: > Please give some examples how the special status of a search field can be > used by user agents, presentation aside. > (I am not trying to challenge Matthew's argument, I am just interested). > Chris Firefox, IE8, and several other browsers allows for search provider autodiscovery. When they encounter a site with a specific <link> tag, their searchbox dropdown lights up, denoting that the site can be added as a permanent search target. http://www.rebron.org/2006/06/01/search-discovery-in-firefox-20/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848862(VS.85).aspx A special search field could also integrate with this facility in a more automatic and natural way. Any site with marked-up search field could be considered a search provider. Regards, Leons Petrazickis http://lpetr.org/blog/
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