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 Sat, 5 Mar 2011 18:26:52 +0100, Christoph Päper 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
[12]
possibly adding controls for increasng and decreasing
[12]± [12]↕
or they may allow the user to select one of the predefined
recommended or frequent values.
[12 ↓]
These are commonly using, without explicitly mentioning it, the magic
unit ‘point’, which users usually don’t know, especially if they’re
not from the US and are not trained typographers.
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,
[12 pt]±
which can both be changed, although not independently.
‘pt’→‘px’ ⇒ [12 px] not [16 px]
Some implementations are even broken in that they accept many unit
symbols, but always autoconvert (and round) to a preferred unit.
[4 mm] → [11.34 pt]
Thus, would it make sense to add another new type for the ‘input’
element?
