- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:22:57 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, jonas@sicking.cc
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jim Jewett<jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think meter should be an appropriate element
>> for things like "number of posts" or "member
>> for X months". ... [but] there is no *hard* maximum
> ... 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)
Right -- my thought is that instead of the author supplying (and the
UA trying to accomodate) a theoretical maximum, they should stop at
the normal maximum.
For example, any temperature more than 10 degrees outside of normal
would be represented (for visual-at-a-glance viewing) as "overfull" or
"underempty", with the percentage full ("----- ")
representations saved for distinguishing between different "normal"
values.
>> 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?
This lets the designer put up the picture of 3 stars as the visual
representation, while still using the <meter> or <measure> element.
That strikes me as at least a slight improvement on the best current
practice of
<img src="/imgs/3star.jpg" alt="3 stars of of 5">
Also note that the various min/low/normal/optimum/high/max attribute
combinations already do this to some extent, but hardcode a few
specific categories.
-jJ
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