Re: [whatwg] Allowing authors to obtain a vertical <input type=range> from Scott González on 2013-03-26 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:30:48 -0400
To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Cc: "whatwg@lists.whatwg.org" <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org>
Message-ID: <CAO8i3icNhjhOi0vWH61o9+xhBjX5tG1PW+YOxDzoz4HDFPOqQA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
> Is 'auto' useful in practice? Is it a behavior that authors or users
> expect? I don't know, but my hunch is "no", and it would be more
> straightforward to just use horizontal and let the author opt-in to
> vertical with the attribute.


No, auto is not useful in practice. We had this in jQuery UI and removed it
four years ago because it was a bad idea.

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