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Range says that the exact number is not important, but it renders as a slider. There are sliders where the exact number is important. The user agent could pick which one to display based on the dimensions given in the style sheet. This would allow it to maintain the same resolution for the tick marks, despite the differences in width. This is very vague. These different presentations should be controlled with CSS, not the browser.
mass-move component to LC1
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So, I think that just removing the clause "but with the caveat that the exact value is not important" would make it less confusing. consider the scenario where I have a slider with 50 at one end and 100 at the other, and 4 tick marks in between, and step of 10. In that case, the range does represent a set of specific numbers. This is a pretty common design pattern for sliders on desktop apps. The sentence above makes it sound like Range is not the right control for this. If range is not the right control for this, what is?
Sounds reasonable to me.
The right control for that is type=number, as far as I can tell. If you use a slider, the user can't see the number, so obviously the number can't be important.
This bug was cloned to create bug 17801 as part of operation convergence.
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