- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:10:05 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Sep 1, 2009, at 08:14, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> Also, as someone not from Liberia, Burma or the United States, I find >> the name very confusing. I usually associate the term 'meter' with the >> unit of length. In fact, the first time I saw the element I thought it >> was more related to <time> than to <progress>, i.e. some way to mark >> up distances. > > > I think the old name <gauge> was clearer, but it was reported as a > spelling problem, so the element was renamed to another word infamous > for spelling issues... :-( I'm not convinced that the spelling issues of gauge are a major problem, since if you get spell it wrong, it will have a noticeable effect of not working. Hixie rejected this argument once before, but I believe the misconceptions about the meaning of the "meter" outweigh the spelling issue which is both noticeable and easy to correct. http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-March/006093.html -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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