In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Sep 2008 Michael Drake wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Porter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 5 Sep 2008 Michael Drake wrote: > >>> It searches the top level document, which is just a frameset in > >>> this case and therefore has no content. > >> But the user isn't concerned with how the page is constructed. (S)he > >> just wants to find a text string wherever it happens to be on the > >> page. The search facility should search all framesets recursively. > > Yes, of course. I'm simply describing how it works at the moment. > > Anyone is welcome to change it or submit a feature request so someone > > else might change it. > I don't think a feature request should be necessary to correct an > obvious shortcoming. Obvious to you perhaps. > Feature requests should be used for features over > and above normal operation of the browser. That's what you're asking for. > The search facility itself > is a feature, but once it's been implemented the fact that it can't > handle some types of pages is a bug No it isn't. The failure was in the knowledge base of the user about how the browser works. > (accepting that it can't at > present be expected to find strings generated by javascript). Say what now? Javascript don't work here so it won't generate anything to be found. To search the page /including scripts and tags/ hit f8 and search in your editor. As with the search function, you need to click in the frame you want to edit (or the address bar for the frameset) before hitting f8. It is clear to this reader that you are asking for the functionality of the search function to be changed. That's a feature request. It would be a bug if you searched for 'lemon' and found 'orange'. Do you think that every frame and the frameset should all appear at once in an editor in pressing f8? Please, God, no. There are some of us who maintain web sites and the way the search (and edit) functions work is just fine and dandy, thanks. (Though I am not averse to configurable change.) Sorry to butt in. T -- Tim Hill, www.timil.com
