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Good to know about the "..." thing Even though I'll miss it myself as a power user I think this is actually fine so long as there's a common standard for integ
by abhinavsharma 7y ago
Good to know about the "..." thing
Even though I'll miss it myself as a power user I think this is actually fine so long as there's a common standard for integrating third-party engines.
Opensearch came about when search was in its nasency and people envisioned all sorts of complex needs for it. 90%+ of opensearch schemas just end up being something like "searchengine.org/?q=%s" in practice.
The main thing we'll lose out in the simpler pattern is autocomplete, which you could specify via "<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json"
What the article doesn't make clear and I wish it did was what Firefox's future of supporting third party search engines looks like. I just came back to firefox after 8 years away, and it seems from some of the UI changes like the "This time search with" feature that they do want to encourage a diversity of search engines overall.
This may just be confusing/bad comms, I hope.