[whatwg] native styling for search input boxes

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Oct 1, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:

> the look of the input field could be styled just by a value of  
> "search"
> for the CSS "appearance". that would have to go through CSS3 WG, but
> would probabvy be the cleanest approach.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#system
>
> (i hope this puts an end to input styling discussions)

The status of being a search field is semantic, not just  
presentational. User agents and assistive technologies could use the  
knowledge that a field is a search field in all sorts of helpful ways.  
Indeed, the semantics would be useful even without the special  
presentation, but the special presentation gives authors an extra  
incentive to get it right.

Regards,
Maciej