*Ian Hickson*:
So one of the HTML5 elements is <gauge>:
Relevancy: <gauge>70%</gauge>
I haven't been reading this list for half an year, so I've probably
missed out the reasoning for two element types, |gauge| and |progress|,
instead of one, called |fraction| or some such.
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.
I'm not a native speaker and would have written it correctly. OTOH I
never would have imagined the alleged AE spelling 'gage' [LEO], because
I would pronounce that completely different: /gO:Z/ vs. /geIdZ/ [SAMPA].
So. <gauge> is out. What better element name can people think of?
- |measurement|, |measure|, |m|,
- |scale|,
- |rule|, |ruler|,
- |screw|,
- |register|,
- |enumerator|, |numerator|, |enum|, |num|,
- |tally|,
- |jig|,
- |quality|, |quantity|, |quaty|, |qty|.
Like I said, I'm not a native speaker and I haven't fully grasped the
semantics of that element type yet.
<meter> is the best so far. I'm not sure it's better than <gauge>.
It's better than yard for sure. &smiley;
[LEO] <http://dict.leo.org/se?search=Anzeigeinstrument>
[SAMPA] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPA_chart_for_English>
