Re: [whatwg] Built Firefox, time to get cracking

[Ric Hardacre]

Ian Hickson wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Ric Hardacre wrote:
title says it all really, only took me a few days of trying, heh. 
There's little to no chance that anything i do stick in will make it 
into the trunk (esp as i'm only building FX not seamonkey) but it should 
all be good clean fun anyway, what does anyone think i should toy with 
first? quite tempted to have a go at some of the forms stuff, 
specifically the submit button overrides (action, etc.)


That would be my suggestion too, but I highly recommend discussing this 
with Mozilla engineers to make sure you don't work on something they 
either won't accept or are already working on.


well ATM I'm just looking through the sources familiarizing myself. 
attaching a form element (apart from a submit button) to an arbitrary 
form looks relatively simple as the relationship for form submission is 
separate to the DOM. but I'm only working from the 1.5 source at the mo 
(i wanted to get *a* build together). Will do CVS next but like i said, 
i'm not really expecting my changes to make it into the trunk, but i 
suppose there's no harm in asking... someone got PING in there after all.


Ric Hardacre
http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/

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

[Mike Dierken]

How about
 relevancy
 score
 rank
 peg
 


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 Subject: [whatwg] A better name than gauge for the element 
 that shows ameasurement
 
 
 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 this 
 e-mail, and in the thread where gauge was first mentioned, 
 it was spelt in at least two different ways intentionally 
 (without even counting the typos in that thread).
 
 So. gauge is out. What better element name can people think 
 of? I asked in some IRC channels, and looked at thesaurii, 
 and the some of the ideas I've so far dismissed are:
 
meter -- looks odd when taken out of context
indicator -- too close to progress indicator
display -- too generic
counter -- too confusable with hit counters
level -- too generic
level-indicator -- too long
 
 meter is the best so far. I'm not sure it's better than gauge.
 
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