[Bug 16696] New: This legacy API is not very interoperably implemented, and has a number of design problems (such as having six boolean arguments in a row, giving the ability to expose a UA dialog, affecting the selection when successful, etc). We may just drop it instead

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16696

           Summary: This legacy API is not very interoperably implemented,
                    and has a number of design problems (such as having
                    six boolean arguments in a row, giving the ability to
                    expose a UA dialog, affecting the selection when
                    successful, etc). We may just drop it instead
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom
                    -find
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org


Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-find
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-find

Comment:
This legacy API is not very interoperably implemented, and has a number of
design problems (such as having six boolean arguments in a row, giving the
ability to expose a UA dialog, affecting the selection when successful, etc).
We may just drop it instead.

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