- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:35:58 -0400
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg at chromium.org> wrote: > The app?has the heuristics. The UA fetches the page and discards it if the > page doesn't indicate support. As pointed out this is suboptimal. Perhaps we > need a two phase indication of support. First OpenSearch indicates that the > page might support it, then the page itself has a chance to deny support on > a per-request basis. That sounds like a reasonable approach. >> Feedback from other search vendors would be particularly essential >> before this becomes standardized, I'd think. ?Possibly other search >> engines would have somewhat different takes that would require a >> different API. > > Agreed. That is exactly what I'm trying to elicit. Unfortunately, no one from Microsoft officially participates in the WHATWG, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone from Yahoo here either. You might more easily get attention from Microsoft by posting to the public-html list in the W3C (although they don't post much there). Or maybe have someone from Google contact them directly for comment. This doesn't seem like a feature that any authors would be interested in beyond the biggest search engines, given the latency guarantees you'd need to make it usable.
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