[Bug 10988] add slider element

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10988

--- Comment #17 from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> 2010-10-10 10:24:42 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> However, the datalist options don't print out, as a rendered label.
> 
> And there's nothing in the rendering that suggests this should happen.

"The user agent may use the suggestion's label to identify the suggestion if
appropriate."

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-list-attribute

> And how would the tick marks/labels map from an accessibility perspective?
> Right now, all that's mapped is role, value, min, and max.

I don't see any concept of tick marks in ARIA.

The proposed Note mapping HTML5 semantics to native accessibility APIs should
cover the mapping of native sliders, including option labels.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-api-map/overview.html

Submitted to the editors of that draft as Bug 11003.

(In reply to comment #13)
> currently the display of ticmarks is left up to the option of the
> browser.
> I would like to make tic marks the option of the author.

HTML5 defines conformance requirements for what semantics a user agent can
extract from what bytes, not what user interface it chooses to place on top of
those semantics.

I believe that's the correct approach, personally, but feel free to challenge
it. I recommend doing so on a mailing list or a dedicated bug rather than in a
narrow bug like this, since it would be a significant and deeply controversial
shift of approach.

I'd hope it would be uncontroversial for the spec to include an example of a
suggestion list with labels being used with input type="range", however.

I've opened a request for such an example as Bug 11004.

(In reply to comment #16)
> whether that [orientation] is done through
> an existing css3 property (which I previously saw, don't know if it still
> exists), or whether it is specified through attributes, I think this
> needs to be done also.

Orientation should be specified with CSS. Please submit such feedback to CSS
WG, rather than in a bug on the HTML spec.

Note that WebKit have already added CSS for making native-look sliders
horizontal or vertical:

http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariCSSRef/Articles/StandardCSSProperties.html#//apple_ref/css/property/-webkit-appearance

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