: [whatwg] Safari-compatible input type=search
The magnifying glass was a particularly poor choice by Apple[1],
because icons featuring one usually represent zooming (in).
Binoculars are (for some reason) more common as symbols for searches.
Eyes and spectacles OTOH most often represent
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Andy Lyttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Christoph Päper wrote:
Anyhow, the appearance of this or other types of |input| should not be
specified by HTML5 / WF2+.
Of course browsers could choose what the icon should look like;
Would
Would it be desirable to allow the icon to be specified in css?
That's up to the author/user agent, and currently you can have a small
icon in the background of an edit field with regular css.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:46
On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
How can the Web designer know how many recent search terms the user
would
like to keep handy at the search box?
The same way the web designer knows anything else: taking an
educated guess at what would be most appropriate for their
On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
I assume that this should be based on the search elements ID
attribute,
am I right ? Because common UA behaviour already is to cache entries
(based on ID) ... so what unsolved problem is solved there ?
If I have a form on my site,
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On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
How can the Web designer know how many
On Sep 30, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
I am not against INPUT[type=search]; I am against INPUT[results=10]
because
I cannot see how it can be reasonably preset.
Yeah, that's weird. I think if I designed it myself, I would have
made the presence of autosave (instead of
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:40:23 +0100, Andy Lyttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like Apple's input type=search adopted as an official
standard, maintaining Safari compatibility.
Comments?
I like type=search.
Special search box style is used throughout Mac OS X and Mac-centric sites
Andy Lyttle:
results - if present, shows a little magnifying glass icon, which
helps to visually identify the field as a search box
The magnifying glass was a particularly poor choice by Apple[1],
because icons featuring one usually represent zooming (in).
Binoculars are (for some
On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Christoph Päper wrote:
The magnifying glass was a particularly poor choice by Apple[1],
because icons featuring one usually represent zooming (in).
Binoculars are (for some reason) more common as symbols for
searches. Eyes and spectacles OTOH most often
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