- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:27:21 -0500
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Jonas Sicking<jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > The problem with temperatures is that they're generally unbounded. Or > at least doesn't have a hard upper limit. So I'm not sure how you'd > use a <meter> with them. When used in non-scientific contexts, temperatures are bounded; the typical limits are something like -20F to 100F, with some slight variation roughly by latitude. The visual analogy is virtually always a thermometer, which obviously has an upper and lower bound. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Leif Halvard Silli<xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > 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. Theoretically, yeah, those are totally (labelled) meters. Realistically, I don't know if it's possible to style them sufficiently to make that work (you'd have to somehow vary font-size based on the meter's %). Definitely a use-case to keep in mind when discussing styling, though. ~TJ
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