Is the orientation independent of or effected by the text directionality
in the context in which the input element occurs?
On 27/03/13 18:20, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
On 26/03/13 14:55, Simon Pieters wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:07:55 +0100, Jonathan Watt <[email protected]> wrote:
The result of the discussion here:
http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
is that I've changed Firefox Nightly's handling of <input type=range>
to allow it to render as a vertical slider if it has an
orient="vertical" attribute on it. There was only one reply to my
email to www-style, but the author suggested using an attribute which
I'd also concluded was the best thing to do.
I'd like to propose that this attribute be added to the HTML5
specification.
I don't have strong opinions on this topic, however, if we are going to
add an attribute, it would be less verbose to use a boolean attribute:
<input type=range vertical>
I think that the orient attribute should be used for <progress> and
<meter> too and those elements would need a third state in addition of
'vertical' and 'horizontal' that would be 'square' (or 'round' or
'center', whatever is the best name). That would allow spinners for
<progress> [1] or round <progress>/<meter> UI like [2].
Using a vertical attribute would hardly solve those use cases whilst the
orient attribute would deal with them quite easily.
I also agree that 'auto' is a pretty undesirable behaviour. As far as I
know, this is the behaviour <input type='range'> is requested to have
and no one implemented it. Microsoft expressed their concerns about it
two years ago to www-style [3].
[1] http://i.stack.imgur.com/bdrWh.png
[2] http://www.clker.com/cliparts/L/c/G/Z/z/U/masque-alpha-camembert-md.png
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Apr/0386.html
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