The 4.x version if TinyMCE released a year ago doesn't use the window.find
API anymore so it only affects older versions of TinyMCE. But it would be
nice if there where a built in API for searching in a document since doing
it manually by traversing DOM nodes takes a lot of code and the find
There was discussion a few years back in bugs for both Mozilla[1] and Webkit[2]
that window.find() should be killed, but that it was used in TinyMCE (a broadly
used js framework). Does anyone still use this API? Has anyone reached out to
TinyMCE about this? Do we still believe it should be
