[whatwg] meter element

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Thu Feb 8 12:08:54 PST 2007


On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:04:39 +0100, David Latapie <david at empyree.org>  
wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:39:54 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Have you read what <meter> is about? Because it seems to me like you
>> didn't...
>
> meter has some meaning attached to that the proposed <gauge> word does
> not have. I would tend to favour this one.

This seems like an entirely different point than the one you made  
before... <meter> was chosen over <gauge> for ease-of-typing:

http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-March/006110.html


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Anne van Kesteren
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