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The spec says the English isindex prompt should be "This is a searchable index. Insert your search keywords here: (input field)", which is the string used by Safari. Please make it "This is a searchable index. Enter search keywords: (input field)" instead. That's the only string that two of the five browsers have converged on. It's also a nicer UI string, since it doesn't uselessly use the word "here". Since the string is exposed in the DOM, variability in the en-US locale is trouble with test cases.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4936. Check-in comment: Change the way isindex's localisable text is written in the spec to match one more browser. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4935&to=4936
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