[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 - Comments on sections 1 and 2

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, David Hyatt wrote:
>
> Please do not change the type from range.  This is a common term for
> slider controls, and you can find the same term used in all sorts of
> modern toolkits.

The point is the "type" attribute is giving the data type, not the widget
type. And the data type is not "range", which implies two numbers.

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