- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:29:11 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org, Tantek Çelik <tantekc@microsoft.com>
Section 4.6 provides values for "indeterminate states" of radio buttons and checkboxes. The suffix for this state in the provided keywords is "-ind", because obviously Indeterminate is fairly long and difficult for non-English speakers to spell correctly. I would like to suggest that this state as used in OSes, more often than not, does not represent an indeterminate state at all (i.e. the site or app cannot determine what state the control should be in) but rather it represents a mixed state, for example a checkbox that covers a sub-tree of other checkboxes that may be both on and off. Given this, I propose that the suffix for this state be "-mixed" and that the wording of §4.6 be changed to reflect that the usage is predominantly that of a mixed state, but may also be used for an indeterminate state (at least, in Level 3). -- Nicholas.
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