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Support OpenSearch description format on WebFrontend #424

Open gloomytrousers opened 2 years ago

gloomytrousers commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'd like the ability to search MythTV programmes from my browser's search bar. This was possible with MythWeb (now deprecated) but not with WebFrontend.

Describe the solution you'd like Support the OpenSearch description format (see also: Firefox docs), which allows sites to describe to the browser how to search them.

Describe alternatives you've considered The pages in WebFrontend are wrapped in a single <iframe ...> which hides the actual page URL from the user. We can view the search page directly (e.g. http://localhost:6544/tv/programsearch.qsp?TitleFilter=THE_SEARCH_TERM&TitleSearch=Search&Sort=starttime) but this means the general page furniture (logo and menu) isn't shown. Browsers can't easily be persuaded to add a search to this URL in any case.

stuarta commented 2 years ago

Thank you for your suggestion. The webfrontend is itself deprecated and we are working on it's replacement. We will keep this in mind while we do this.