- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:32:09 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, fantasai wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > In all of these cases, there are at most three segments: low, medium, > > and high, and in fact in all cases you could get away with having at > > most two segments (i.e. just having a "low" or "high" marker). > > mmm, I've seen a *lot* of gauges that have a "low" threshold and a > "critical" threshold. I don't know what you mean by "get away with". I mean that it would not be the end of the world if the <gauge> only supported two segments. The argument was that it should support an arbitrary number. I think the best compromise is to support three. > I agree that Mikko's points about "good" and "bad" are important. > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-September/002271.html Yes, that's on my list of points to take into account already. > To set the scale for a three-segment gauge you need to know > - min value > - max value > - lower threshold > - upper threshold > - optimum > > [...] Right. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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