OpenSearch is not a standard and as far as I understand it almost no wrote:
> I would also like to mirror the previous comments: Why do we need to
> expose this new non-standard feature to the web? Can't we just
> transform OpenSearch XML internally to the new WebExtension format?
>
> On Wed,
I would also like to mirror the previous comments: Why do we need to
expose this new non-standard feature to the web? Can't we just
transform OpenSearch XML internally to the new WebExtension format?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:17 PM Henri Sivonen wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:04 PM Dale
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:04 PM Dale Harvey wrote:
> Yes, extensions that only define a new search engine will be permitted,
> the extension will not be able to do anything else.
What capabilities do search engine-only WebExtensions have that
OpenSearch doesn't provide?
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Henri Sivonen
Sorry I had replied but only just realised the discussion had been taken
off list
> Does this code enforce that the .xpi we download and attempt to install
is actually a search type and not an arbitrary WebExtension
Yes, extensions that only define a new search engine will be permitted,
the
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 00:17, Daniel Veditz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 2:10 PM Dale Harvey wrote:
>
>> > If you _do_ invent a new one shared with other browser vendors, please
>> > don't use an "x-" prefix in anything new.
>>
>> Thanks, I got notice of others concerns about this as well
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 2:10 PM Dale Harvey wrote:
> > If you _do_ invent a new one shared with other browser vendors, please
> > don't use an "x-" prefix in anything new.
>
> Thanks, I got notice of others concerns about this as well and have been
> looped in to discuss this more with standards
On 2/14/2020 5:05 PM, Daniel Veditz wrote:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM Dale Harvey wrote:
We’re proposing a new mime-type [...]: “x-xpinstall” for WebExtension
search
engines. Example:
This is confusingly similar to "application/x-xpinstall" which we use to
trigger extension installs
Hi Dale,
It seems that this feature is not being developed with the hope of it
turning into a cross-browser autodiscovery of search extensions in the
future. With that in mind, I'd like to ask if it is really necessary to
expose a new meta tag to the web platform, given the unclear path to the
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM Dale Harvey wrote:
> We’re proposing a new mime-type [...]: “x-xpinstall” for WebExtension
> search
> engines. Example: /" some authors will tend to fill in the
"missing" bit and get it wrong, and others will complain that the syntax is
non-standard and broken.
Summary: Since Firefox 57, users have been able to install additional
search engines in the shape of a WebExtension[1] from addons.mozilla.org
(AMO), whereas this used to only be possible using the OpenSearch XML
format[2]. Since Firefox 68, all the search engines we distribute are
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