- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:29:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > > +1 for "status". I think "gauge" (I prefer this spelling even though I > live in Finland) gives too much direction for rendering. Somehow I > immediately think round display when somebody says "gauge". <status> seems too generic, I would assume people would want to use that for a status bar or similar. <gauge> makes me think of a petrol gauge, which is exactly the kind of thing this is intended for. For dynamic status, you'd want to use <progress> (that's something that nominally goes from 0 to 100%, at which point the thing it is representing is complete). > Regardless of the word that ends up being used I think the element > should also have property to tell which value is "GOOD" and which is > "BAD". For example, for search results having 95% to render as green bar > is okay whereas 95% for CPU temperature is bad and it should be rendered > as red. Obviously the indicator for good/bad could be something else but > color but you get the idea. Interesting point. Noted. > Make sure to support status/gauge where good value is something in between. > For example, think motor temperature of an automobile; it's bad if it's too > low and it's bad if it's too high. Also noted. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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