Yeah you're totally right, right clicking a search bar should also work and would be lower friction / less confusing.
> Still, it's just a toy anyway, I assume you weren't planning to turn this into a real service right? :)
Not a real service, but if it was more cross-browser I'd probably have bought a domain for it and spent a week or two trying to build more interesting games with the idea! I think this would have been a fun constraint to build some games around. But sure, this was never going to go far past "fun art project / party trick"
ah. gotcha. Shame about chrome, but yeah, not too shocking that google does not have a ton of incentive to encourage people using anything but google. heck, they've done their best to turn the address bar into a google search.
Still, you don't need to buy a whole domain right? you could just toss the toy somewhere under an existing domain. Use it to highlight google's opposition to certain tech or something...
(oh, also to simplify things even more, your load page could make the input the opensearch was tied to take up the entire page so that people could right click anywhere :) - or style it as an "install" button - "right click to install")
> Still, it's just a toy anyway, I assume you weren't planning to turn this into a real service right? :)
Not a real service, but if it was more cross-browser I'd probably have bought a domain for it and spent a week or two trying to build more interesting games with the idea! I think this would have been a fun constraint to build some games around. But sure, this was never going to go far past "fun art project / party trick"