- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@ltgt.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:50:15 +0200
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > Does it has to "look like a meter"? I am little uncertain whether <meter> > represent a "super simple graphs" or what ... No (my own opinion); meter marks up a value within a range of accepted values, however it is rendered. Though those "super simple graphs" are good candidates to use <meter> instead of a series a <div>s and <spans> and sometime <img>s, whereas authors probably won't update their "text only" (not marked-up) numbers to use a <meter> as they won't feel the need (particularly if some UAs start replacing their text with a "super simple graph"!) >>> A fine point is that if one uses it to say e.g. <meter>50 degrees >>> Celsius</meter>, without indicating a temperature range, then it >>> represent >>> wrong use - many will get that wrong, probably. >>> >>> A potential good effect is that many values might get easier to grasp if >>> they are delivered as a meter. For instance, the phrase "50 degrees >>> Celsius" >>> could get a red color, to indicate that it is hot. >> >> Ooh, temperature is an interesting use. > > So, if you accept that usecase description, then I think we can conclude > that the words in a tag cloud represent meters - typically the font-size of > each word represents the relative "hotness" of each tag. No, because the tag itself isn't "the relative hotness". If the tag were preceeded/followed by some "hotness" indication (other than how it is rendered re. font-size and/or fore-color "brightness"), then <meter> would be suitable to represent this information. (as said by Jonas, the temperature use case doesn't comply with <meter>'s requirements, unless in a particular context the author defines a lower and upper bound; for example, when listing current temperatures of several cities, <meter> could be used with the lower, resp. higher, bound being the lowest, resp. highest, current measured temperature; to make it easier to compare city temperatures and for example immediately if where you live will be hotter than where your parents live) -- Thomas Broyer
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