- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 23:42:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Benjamin Poulain wrote: > On 01/06/2011 10:53 PM, ext Ian Hickson 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? > > I do not know the original use case but I can think of a few: > -on mobile devices which have a find dialog but no user interface to access > it, make the find dialog appear Are there pages that do this today? Or indeed any UAs that have a find dialog but no UI to access it? > -on mobile devices which do not have a find dialog, add one for you > document if pertinent You can add a custom find feature without window.find(), you just have to implement it manually. > -add search feature in a frame. Searching between frames with the > browser builtin dialog is usually not doing was user expect Are there pages that do this? > On IE, users usually emulate the feature with TextRange > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535872%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Do you have any examples of pages doing this? It would be useful to study how pages use this API; maybe we can do something better. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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