> Why? There's a lot of JS to load to make that work. If you never need to do a ...

> 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

the op is saying "if we autofocussed, we'd need to load all the JS involved in performing the search"