- From: Andy Lyttle <whatwg@phroggy.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:52:45 -0700
On Sep 30, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > I am not against INPUT[type=search]; I am against INPUT[results=10] > because > I cannot see how it can be reasonably preset. Yeah, that's weird. I think if I designed it myself, I would have made the presence of autosave (instead of results) trigger the magnifying glass icon, used a sensible default for the number of items in the search history (maybe 10 or 20), used something like historylength to override it, and make setting historylength=0 disable the menu (leaving the icon). Something like that. But that's not how Apple did it, and we should be compatible with them. > Is this control for simple search only or is it designed to be used > in an > advanced search interface? Should it be unique within a form? Excellent question! I imagine it should be unique within a form. Whether it's appropriate for an advanced search interface would depend on the interface; if there's one input that's an obvious choice for type="search" then go ahead and use it, otherwise it might be better to stick with type="text". Hopefully someone more qualified than I can provide a better answer. -- Andy Lyttle whatwg at phroggy.com
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