[whatwg] Safari-compatible <input type="search">

• From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:40:48 +0200
• Message-ID: <1222785648.16476.70.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com>

Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 15:31 +0100 schrieb Jo?o Eiras:
> > How can the Web designer know how many recent search terms the user would like to keep handy at the search box?
> 
> He/she can't know, and providing that info would be a privacy issue.
> input with type search would simply tell the UA to keep entries typed
> in memory for later reuse, which is a bonus for usability,
I assume that this should be based on the search elements ID attribute,
am I right ? Because common UA behaviour already is to cache entries
(based on ID) ... so what unsolved problem is solved there ?

Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 07:40:48 UTC