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Re:How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works by daleharvey on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:59PM (#28054129)
> Why? There's a lot of JS to load to make that work. If you never need to do a search (e.g. from a Google search) it would be a potential waste.

Confused by what this comment is meant to say exactly, but just in case its not known already, seems this situation is what the autofocus attribute is for @ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att..., no JS needed

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Re:How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works by deecewan on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:58AM (#28057684)
the op is saying "if we autofocussed, we'd need to load all the JS involved in performing the search"
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