OpenSearch is not a standard and as far as I understand it almost no <link
rel="" values are standardized, however based on feedback we won't be
shipping this feature as proposed.

Cheers
Dale

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 13:03, Tom Schuster <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would also like to mirror the previous comments: Why do we need to
> expose this new non-standard feature to the web? Can't we just
> transform OpenSearch XML internally to the new WebExtension format?
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:17 PM Henri Sivonen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:04 PM Dale Harvey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Yes,  extensions that only define a new search engine will be
> permitted,
> > > the extension will not be able to do anything else.
> >
> > What capabilities do search engine-only WebExtensions have that
> > OpenSearch doesn't provide?
> >
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