On Nov 26, 2007 5:35 PM, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GData is really pretty useful. OpenSearch was just sloppy. Some element > names were capitalized, some weren't. A bunch of stuff specific to A9's > UI was mixed in. They insisted on using RSS in addition to Atom for a new > application. They supported many encoding types, something that belongs > in the presentation layer, not the protocol. [Ever tested a product that > supported 150 encodings? I have.] Then they left out any way to specify > the natural language used to process the query. They used two different > formats for the parameters to a POST and a GET even though HTML has used > a single format forever (the <FORM> element).
Apart from supporting RSS and Atom this doesn't sound much like the most recent version of the spec I've looked at [1]. But of course you are entitled to your opinion about the "sloppiness". I totally agree about the merits of putting standard documents like OpenSearch through a process like IETF. I just think putting down efforts like OpenSearch with verbage bordering on FUD doesn't do anyone much good. //Ed [1] http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#The_.22language.22_parameter
