I’m cleaning out the Add-ons docs, and wondered what to do about this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox.
It seems to be describing a cross-browser thing, so it should perhaps live in our open web docs. But I’m not sure where. Does anyone have any ideas?
OpenSearch appears to be a standards initiative from 2011. They claim that it is supported by IE, Firefox, and Chrome:
http://www.opensearch.org/Community/OpenSearch_search_clients
MDN implements the standard, and includes the link in the header:
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search/xml" title="Mozilla Developer Network">
If you use the separate Search toolbar in Firefox Quantum, you can still add MDN as a custom search provider:
You don’t get it with the default omnibar, however.
We also refer to rel="search" on the reference page, and point to this documentation.
I think we should move the page out of AddOns (maybe as a top-level page), and start making it a generic document for the OpenSearch standard. It seems like a useful open web technology that didn’t quite make it, but still could be incredibly useful for sites like developer.mozilla.org, stackoverflow.com, and intranet sites.
Yes, this is precisely what should happen. It should go directly under Web/, probably at something like Web/OpenSearch.
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