Screenshot of adding the OSU Libraries Catalog Search
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://library.osu.edu/opensearch.xml" title="Add OSU Libraries Catalog search" />
But, in perusing the documentation for OpenSearch definitions, I did learn that the next version of Firefox (3.1, 3.5, whatever) is introducing an automatic update function for OpenSearch definitions:
<url type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="self" template="http://www.foo.com/mysearchdescription.xml" />
Although it isn’t clear how this is going to manifest itself in user interface (there are no clues in the Mozilla bug for this feature; does the update happen automatically without the user doing anything? — that seems dangerous. Is the user prompted to update like in the Themes/Plug-ins Add-ons listing?), this sounds like something we should be supporting in order to future-proof our OpenSearch definitions. (It is part of the OpenSearch specification.)





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