Are you are referring to a "find in page", where a user presses CTRL-F
in the browser?
Yes, sorry to be unclear.
If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find
matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type "placa" and
it matches "pla�a", and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in
Firefox 3.0.13 or IE8.
Exactly, and FF and IE are the most common browsers we're seeing.
I was wondering if someone (I know this sounds crazy) has explored the
idea of marking up the non-diacritic inline version of the word in a span
styled in such a way as to make it findable but not intrusive.
-t
Keith
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearer<sh...@ils.unc.edu> wrote:
Hi Folks,
Looking for help/perspectives.
Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with
diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user
tries with or without diacritics.
In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so
the user gets what they want regardless of how they search.
Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment,
Tim
