- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:33:12 +0000 (UTC)
So one of the HTML5 elements is <gauge>: Relevancy: <gauge>70%</gauge> Unfortunately, the study Google did on Web authors showed that authors cannot spell the word "language", and I see no reason to believe that they might spell "gauge" either. Also, I've typoed the word "gauge" three times so far in this e-mail, and in the thread where <gauge> was first mentioned, it was spelt in at least two different ways intentionally (without even counting the typos in that thread). So. <gauge> is out. What better element name can people think of? I asked in some IRC channels, and looked at thesaurii, and the some of the ideas I've so far dismissed are: <meter> -- looks odd when taken out of context <indicator> -- too close to "<progress> indicator" <display> -- too generic <counter> -- too confusable with hit counters <level> -- too generic <level-indicator> -- too long <meter> is the best so far. I'm not sure it's better than <gauge>. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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