Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mar 21, 2006, at 08:18, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: 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. Wow. But metre is the correct spelling in en-AU and

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-21 Thread Jens Brueckmann
On 21/03/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/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.

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-21 Thread fantasai
Christoph Paeper wrote: I'm not a native speaker and would have written it correctly. OTOH I never would have imagined the alleged AE spelling 'gage' [LEO], because I would pronounce that completely different: /gO:Z/ vs. /geIdZ/ [SAMPA]. I pronounce it gayj. So do most of the civil

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-21 Thread mozer
score +1On 3/21/06, fantasai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Paeper wrote: I'm not a native speaker and would have written it correctly. OTOH I never would have imagined the alleged AE spelling 'gage' [LEO], because I would pronounce that completely different: /gO:Z/ vs. /geIdZ/ [SAMPA]. I

[whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/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. Also, I've typoed the word gauge three times so far in

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-20 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ian Hickson wrote: So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/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

Re: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element that shows a measurement

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Hickson
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: So one of the HTML5 elements is gauge: Relevancy: gauge70%/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