[whatwg] SearchBox API

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg at chromium.org>wrote:

> The simplest way to address this is probably to advertise support via
> an agreed upon meta tag. e.g.
> <meta name="NavigatorSearchBoxSupport" content="true">
>
> The UA populates the API only if the page advertises support via the
> metatag. Otherwise, it works as it does today.
>

How would that work? The browser can only get that metadata by fetching the
search page. So the browser should fetch the search page when the user
starts typing in a search query, and if the page doesn't advertise "instant
search", the browser just throws that page away? If so, presumably you'd
want some kind of back-off to avoid lots of useless traffic.

Rob
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