On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:25:44 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> As an extra bonus, even when searching is not reliant on Javascript, >> mangling the text in the search box often is, so unless I'm extra >> careful, whenever I want to search for (say) "aardvarks", I invariably >> end up searching for "searaardvarksch". >> >> At least the new PyPI search box is better than that. They get a point. >> >> > "Mangling the text" should never be necessary. The HTML5 <input> tag has > a 'placeholder' attribute for a reason.
You're assuming the page is using HTML5. I've used a lot of these that did it in Javascript, and didn't degrade gracefully if Javascript was disabled. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
