add opensearch (the xml format for automatic search discovery in browsers)

[rmetzler]

I used to have a shortcut in Google Chrome for translating words from English to German and vice versa. In the omni bar I would just put d (for dict) and then the word and it would search for the translation.

After a Google Chrome update this functionality is gone on my installation and I have to re-add this functionality for all my search engines again. Which could be simpler than it currently is.

Websites used to have the OpenSearch standard linked (not related to the fork of Elasticsearch which has the same name) and 3rd party XML opensearch descriptions were shared on the Mozilla Mycroft website.

For example, this is the old Mycroft page for dict.tu-chemnitz.de : https://mycroftproject.com/install.html?id=95246&basename=dict_tuchemnitz_deen&icontype=ico&name=https%3A%2F%2Fdict.tu-chemnitz.de%2F+%28Dictionary+-+DE-EN%29

While the OpenSearch spec seems not to be that popular anymore, it still works and is relatively simple to implement. Here is a blog post from 2024: https://akos.ma/blog/how-to-add-opensearch-to-your-website/

And this is the official Mozilla OpenSearch page in German and English:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/OpenSearch
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch

I would love it if someone would add this to enable automatic discovery of the https://dict.zero-g.net/ search engine.

[haukex]

Thanks for this suggestion and sorry for taking so long to get around to it. I've now implemented it and from my testing it seems to work, would be great if you can confirm?