- From: Andy Lyttle <whatwg@phroggy.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:46:12 -0700
On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Christoph P?per wrote: > The magnifying glass was a particularly poor choice by Apple[1], > because icons featuring one usually represent zooming (in). > Binoculars are (for some reason) more common as symbols for > searches. Eyes and spectacles OTOH most often represent visibility. > > Anyhow, the appearance of this or other types of |input| should not > be specified by HTML5 / WF2+. Of course browsers could choose what the icon should look like; binoculars aren't a bad choice (although I think you're wrong about them being more common than a magnifying glass these days). The key is that the browser gives some sort of non-text indication to the user about the purpose of the field, in a platform-appropriate way. -- Andy Lyttle whatwg at phroggy.com
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