Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Currently I use an hAtom+XOXO mix for search results on my pages, but I have found that hAtom works sufficently for most -- I just wasn't sure if this was a 'proper' use of it... but I figure it probably is since you can have RSS for search too... -- Singpolyma On 8/30/06, David Janes [EMAIL

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Edward Summers
On Aug 30, 2006, at 9:36 AM, David Janes wrote: The reason I think that (2) is needed is: (a) profiles are not manditory, so we can't depend on their presence (b) the search-results consumer, knowing that there is hAtom search results, may want not to read the URL at all (prefering a proxy to

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Edward Summers
On Aug 30, 2006, at 9:52 AM, David Janes wrote: I'm not sure how to be clearer: my first message in this thread suggests in point (2) add a single-field extension to OpenSearch XML; my second message says adding a MIME type is not the solution [1]. OK, so an extension to OpenSearch since

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 29, 2006, at 11:28 PM, David Janes wrote: (2) one could add an extra field to the OpenSearch XML (a description file about how your results are returned) indicating that the file is hAtom There are two problems here, and I think we should avoid approaching both at once. Just as a

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Edward Summers
more light: http://wiki.unto.net/OpenSearch_and_microformats //Ed ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

RE: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Ted Drake
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Summers Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:22 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch more light: http://wiki.unto.net/OpenSearch_and_microformats //Ed ___ microformats

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reynen
On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Ted Drake wrote: This is a sample product result from the search result page. Where would the OpenSearch/hAtom microformats be added? For the results section, you'd just be adding hAtom to the results, which someone more involved with hAtom would probably

[uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-29 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All It's slightly off topic, but I thought I'd share my latest post about how we added the OpenSearch protocol to the Yahoo! Tech site. This open protocol lets you define how your web site's search engine works and then activates the personal search box in IE7 and Firefox 2. It also helps the

Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-29 Thread David Janes
This looks very possible. In particular, (1) according the article, Yahoo only returns its results in HTML, so we know HTML is good (2) one could add an extra field to the OpenSearch XML (a description file about how your results are returned) indicating that the file is hAtom (3) parties not