- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 21:56:11 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Christoph P?per wrote: > > Imagine a richt text processor done in HTML5. If you want to select the > font size (of a template or class, of course) how would you do it? > > Standalone word processors usually have a combo field that lets the user > enter a number [...] possibly adding controls for increasng and > decreasing [...] or they may allow the user to select one of the > predefined recommended or frequent values. So far, <input type=number> handles these. > In other places, software interface designers honor the variety of > absolute and relative (length) units by introducing a widget that bears > the number and the unit symbol, [...] Thus, would it make sense to add > another new type for the "input" element? I think it would make sense to add something like this if we find that people do that kind of thing a lot. Currently you can get close using a type=number with a <select>; do sites do that? On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Diogo Resende wrote: > > This is just a numeric input. It has a unit, just like a monetary value, > but besides that it's just a number. Maybe a numeric input should have > some type of formatting to proper show the unit (prefix/suffix, decimals > places, decimal sep., ...). On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Christoph P?per wrote: > > A new type is probably not necessary, because a new attribute that is > called something like ?unit? and is only valid in the ?number? and > ?range? states could be enough. On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Diogo Resende wrote: > > For me it would be great that a UA would implement an numberic input > with a visible but unchanged unit. Something like an <input>+<span> but > the span looking to be inside the input. > ________ > [__12_pt_] > ^------ cursor would not pass this point > > Extra: > > This is more interesting for other types of input, not necessarily > numeric, like IPv4, currencies, HH:MM, .. That's an interesting idea, but it might be something we should leave to the Web Components work. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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