[whatwg] Specification of window.find()

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Jan 6 13:53:59 PST 2011


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?

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