- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:19:02 -0500
- To: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, jonas@sicking.cc
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jim Jewett<jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote: > Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> What i was wondering was if you had examples of >> <meter>s other than the "X stars rating" example > > I think meter should be an appropriate element for things like > "number of posts" or "member for X months". > > Under the current definition, these wouldn't be appropriate, > as there is no *hard* maximum, but I think it would be reasonable > to change the element to accommodate them. > > Er, well, unless it made styling an unsolvable problem. That'd be the rub. It doesn't seem to make sense to try and represent these as a meter - there's no way to represent this visually. (Exception: you can always define a mapping from [0,inf) to [0,100) or similar, so an author *could* calculate this and then turn it into a meter. But then you have a hard maximum again, so there's no need to change the element.) > Should meter have the ability to define multiple category breaks, > such as > > val < 0.5 ==> star0 > 0.5 < val <1.5 ==> star1 > ... > 3.5 < val ==> star4 > > and to style based on the category? Use-case? ~TJ
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