- From: Ric Hardacre <whatwg@cycloid.f9.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:21:45 +0000
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> 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. > > But unlike the almost entirely useless "language" attribute, gauge will > actually have a noticeable result in future browsers and so if it's > typed incorrectly, the author would not see the result and, hopefully, > go and fix it. Whereas if they mistype language, they won't notice the > error until they validate. i second this, being English i have gotten used to American spellings, such as color (and in terms of quake modding: armor), which means my kids are going to get into some serious bother when they get to spelling classes at school :-) but if i can do that I'm sure i can learn to spell guage as, er, gauge. will throw in my alternative anyway: <progress> Ric Hardacre http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/
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