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Peter Kasting  
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 More options Feb 22 2010, 3:33 pm
From: Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:33:27 -0800
Local: Mon, Feb 22 2010 3:33 pm
Subject: Re: [chromium-dev] Proposal: extension API: activating extensions through Omnibox

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote:
> What if you use <tab> to disambiguate entering extension mode from
> doing a search. gtalk<tab>foo would search send "foo" to the gtalk
> extension, gtalk<space>foo uses the normal omnibox providers. I think
> this also eliminates the need for the "extension:" prefix.

This doesn't help you at all, because tab and space both trigger the
existing keyword provider, and have to in order for "tab to search" to work.
 This also doesn't address how you surface the extension capabilities to the
user in the dropdown before the user gets to the point of typing <tab>.

PK


 
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