window.find already exists

• From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:28:47 +0100
• To: public-webapps@w3.org
• Message-ID: <op.v5a1d9dwidj3kv@simon-pieterss-macbook.local>

There's discussion about introducing find and findAll as an alternative to  
querySelector[All]. However, window.find exists already in Firefox and  
WebKit, and is for in-page text search. There's a placeholder for it in  
the spec.  
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html#dom-find

Are Firefox and WebKit going to drop the old find()? Is there legacy  
content that feature detects for find() and would break if it changed  
semantics?

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Monday, 21 November 2011 16:27:08 UTC