On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:55 +0100, Chris Young wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:12:23 +0100, Tim Hill wrote: > > > On the subject of searching, is there any future plan to implement search > > from the URL bar? I would like to type, say, 'banana' into the bar and a > > search result to appear if a DN lookup fails to find http://banana > > That was present at one point but has been disabled/removed.
Indeed. We removed it because it wasn't particularly reliable, particularly in the face of DNS servers redirecting to a search page instead of returning NXDOMAIN, like the specification intended. If it does get reinstated, it'll be using a rather more robust approach. I've no idea if or when that might happen, however. John.
