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(This is a copy of an email send Wed, 22 Oct 2008 : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0075.html) Hi Working Group ! I wish to resubmit an idea that I emitted 9 month ago, buried in the "Header cell in top left of data tables" thread [1][2][3]. The idea was to allow <meter> into <thead> > <tr> at the same level than <th>, to allow to build timelines, timesheets or multi channel TV programms without using hundreds of table cells. A @Interval attribute would be needed on td, to be able to give one or multiple intervals in the meter scale for one input. And overflow of intervals should also be allowed inside <tr>. Any advices about it ? [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/0273.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/0284.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/0290.html
I'm not sure <meter> makes sense for this, but maybe it's because I don't really understand the use case. Can you provide some links to sites that are trying to do what you describe today?
Mass move to "HTML WG"
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