- From: Tim Down <timdown@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:14:18 +0100
On 6 January 2011 21:53, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, benjamin.poulain at nokia.com wrote: >> >> I would like to suggest a change for the main HTML 5 specification: >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ >> >> The problem I have is with the Window object specification >> (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-window-object ). >> It does not mention the method find() which can be found on most engines >> (e.g.: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.find ). > > It looks like IE doesn't implement this, so it's probably not strictly > required for compat with the Web. > > What are the use cases for this feature? It's useful for custom search features. I've recommended it a few times on Stack Overflow for people wanting to highlight or somehow style all occurrences of a piece of text that may span nodes (it's this part that is the compelling feature). You can achieve the same using TextRange in IE. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5886858/full-text-search-in-html-ignoring-tags I think this is a valid use case. On a related note, I would like to see equivalents of some of the text-based methods in IE's TextRange make their way into Range, but that's a separate issue. Tim
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