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Issue with "OpenSearch description format": How to add a search engine programmatically?
MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
From the introduction,
can be installed programmatically as described in Adding search engines from web pages
links back to itself, but doesn't appear to have any description of how to add a search engine programmatically.
What did you expect to see?
Either a link to a different page, or a specific heading of the same page, or no mention of adding an engine programmatically.
MDN Content page report details
- Folder:
en-us/web/opensearch - MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch
- GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/opensearch/index.html
- Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/4a23c30c528fa31a276b2f0448b650556e42fdf1
- Document last modified: 2021-03-17T03:44:53.000Z
To whoever handles this issue: I can't find the content this link is supposed to link to. I would suggest adding a section to the main OpenSearch page covering how to do this, and then link it to that section.
I wonder if there is actually anything to do programmatically. I think each browser will detect the search engine and allow to add it (more or less easily).
What about slightly rephrasing and link it to this: https://www.howtogeek.com/114176/how-to-easily-create-search-plugins-add-any-search-engine-to-your-browser/ ?
@chrisdavidmills , @tomprince: what do you think about it?
