Hi! Is there already any proposal for browser search API for searching over displayed web pages? So that a webapp could know when user is searching with a browser interface. I am imagining something where browser would send an event with search string content whenever user would modify search pattern. Because searching over the page is part of the trusted UI, webapp should not have a way to interfere or set search string content, but webapp should still know when searching is happening.
This would be really useful for assuring search works as expected for webapps which work with rich and special content. For example, Google Docs would not have to hijack search shortcut to provide their own search. And it would still work when user starts searching by enabling it through browser menu entry and not through keyboard shortcut. Another example is Mozilla pdf.js, a canvas based PDF rendering library for the web. Because all content is rendered as canvas, searching is a really unsatisfying experience. Their current approach is same as Google Docs, they hijack search keyboard shortcut to display their own search. And again, this makes users be confused if they start searching through browser menu. Not to mention that users using mobile devices probably never start searching with keyboard shortcut. So, is there a plan to standardize something like that? A simple event which would be send every time user change string he or she is searching for, or an empty string if search was cleared or closed. Where should I turn to to propose such a standard? Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
