[whatwg] Specification of window.find()

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> So I guess we have to make a decision for the platform here.
>
> Do we want:
>
>  - To spec window.find() in all its historical glory, and have it
>   implemented everywhere?
>
>  - To spec a subset of window.find() that just does the use case described
>   above, namely to destructively change the selection to a matching part
>   of the DOM so that it can be manipulated by script?
>
>  - To spec a new API that just returns matching ranges and then allows
>   those ranges to be manipulated like the selection can be today?
>
>  - To encourage authors to write a library that does this for them, and
>   not bother to provide a dedicated API at all?
>
> Which would implementations that don't do the full window.find() today be
> willing to do?

As far as I know, we (google) would prefer to do nothing with
window.find(), so we can use it for the Selectors API.  No opinion on
whether the functionality is useful under another name.

~TJ