- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:58:16 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > For implementors: > The size attribute gives the average number of glyphs that the reader of the > page will be able to see when the control is rendered and completely filled > with text. (This depends on the language of the control and the current > style and accounts for ligature-driven scripts like Devanagari.) > For authors: > The intent of this attribute is that the text length of expected user input > does not exceed the size of the control, with some safety room. (NB: this > is different from the average text length of user input.) Is this a proposal to replace the current text in the spec, and if so, what is the problem with the current text? I'm confused. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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