[whatwg] Specification of window.find()

Benjamin Poulain benjamin.poulain at nokia.com
Tue May 3 01:44:22 PDT 2011


On 05/03/2011 01:42 AM, ext Ian Hickson wrote:
>> 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?
>[...]

I don't really have an interest in defending the feature.

I was just hoping to get a specification for the API to get a bit more 
consistency between engines.

Since you do not seem interested in the feature, I guess we can keep it 
as a WebKit/Gecko extension.

Benjamin



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