[whatwg] SearchBox API

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg at chromium.org>wrote:

> // Dimensions of the portion of the search box (e.g. a dropdown)
>  // that overlaps the window.
>  readonly attribute unsigned long x;
>  readonly attribute unsigned long y;
>  readonly attribute unsigned long width;
>  readonly attribute unsigned long height;
>

How is this information expected to be used?

Is there expected to be some kind of policy that controls which pages are
allowed to access the searchBox API? I assume that if I'm currently visiting
evil.com and I start typing in a search, evil.com should not be able to see
that. How should the searchBox API behave in that case?

Is the intent that the browser load a normal search page for some partial
query and then expose the rest of the search query through this searchBox
API? If so, it seems we'll need a way to detect ahead of time that a search
service expects/supports such behavior.

Rob
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