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 represent visibility.
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;
binoculars aren't a bad choice (although I think you're wrong about
them being more common than a magnifying glass these days). The key
is that the browser gives some sort of non-text indication to the
user about the purpose of the field, in a platform-appropriate way.
--
Andy Lyttle
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