window.find deprecated? from Ben Peters on 2014-07-09 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Ben Peters <Ben.Peters@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 19:56:03 +0000
To: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3567c15d9b8c49d0ae6569eca6140f5c@BLUPR03MB437.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

There was discussion a few years back in bugs for both Mozilla[1] and Webkit[2] that window.find() should be killed, but that it was used in TinyMCE (a broadly used js framework). Does anyone still use this API? Has anyone reached out to TinyMCE about this? Do we still believe it should be killed?

Ben

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672395
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64761

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:56:32 UTC