On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tim Down <[email protected]> wrote: > window.find() covers a use case not easily replicated by other APIs: > searching within the page for text that crosses node boundaries. There > was a thread on the WHATWG mailing list about this: > > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-July/032588.html
As noted in that thread, it doesn't cover that use-case very well, it's not very interoperable between the UAs that implement it, and IE and Opera don't implement it at all. At minimum, window.find needs a lot of work. If it conflicts with selector-based find, we should drop it and re-spec it as something better with a more targeted name. ~TJ
