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

[David Hyatt]

Range does not imply two numbers IMO.  It simply implies that the 
selection of a specific number is made within a specified range.  The 
term "range control" or "ranged control" is a fairly standard one to 
represent a slider with a single current value, and you can find it in 
multiple deployed toolkits.

dave

On Jun 10, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> 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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