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    Just had a gander at Boing Boing for the first time in a long time.

    I won't be back, to their site at least.

    Pressing Ctrl+F on my keyboard didn't, as expected, bring up a browser-level text search, instead it was hijacked by code on the page, insisting instead that I use the site's functionality.

    wtf?

    Furthermore, when I managed to force my browser's search functionality.. it barely even worked, because the changing 'live view' meant that the bits of the comment section where my search term might've been found weren't being rendered, despite my having literally just scrolled down a page or so.

    I'd've honestly expected a site with the heritage of BoingBoing would be the last to pull this sort of presumptuous HTML base function neutering dysfunctionality. Sad!

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    • <whinge>
      THE INTERNET'S
      NOT WHAT IT
      USED TO BE
      </whinge>      detritus
    • Firefox's FAYT search works fine there.i_monk
    • lol gnash
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    • i more meant searching within the contents of the page itself - FAYT's the smart address bar thing, no?detritus
    • No, it's "find as you type", the text search thing you can pull up with ⌘F.i_monk
    • oh, right - that's what I was using, then - maybe it's a PC thing, but when I ctrl+F on their pages it pops the HTML search function in the top right.detritus
    • I've actually just noticed that if I hit Ctrl+F again (ie. twice), it pops the FF search dialogue, *ahem*.detritus
    • the other point remains mind. as too this one, although diluted.detritus
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