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default ctrl-f will only search through the current page while the site-provided one can search through all content... this is not really an argument against it
by SuperCuber 3y ago
default ctrl-f will only search through the current page while the site-provided one can search through all content... this is not really an argument against it existing
- 38 3y agoso can a POST form request. why people feel the need to reinvent stuff that's existed for decades is beyond me
- croes 3y agoHow does the user know which search to use? Ctrl-F vs search box with POST. Forcing a request what could be done locally is bad design.
- charonn0 3y agoBy longstanding convention. Ctrl-F is the conventional in-page search combo, while a dedicated search field is the conventional website search engine.
- croes 3y agoBut it's about inpage search, it's just a lazy loading page. The dedicated search field is for searching my websites and the result would be a list of my pages that contain the search term. Ctrl-F jumps to the location of the search term on the page I'm already at.
- folmar 3y agoYou can even use the OpenSearch description and move the search field to the browsers'.