On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]> > wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Tony Gentilcore <[email protected]> > 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. > Thanks for the advice. I'll cross-post to public-html and reach out directly.
