These all sound great, but could we please stick to generalized
types like 'sliders' or 'pick lists', not 'knobs'. Remember - a lot
of people are going to want to use this on a dumb terminal.
It was extremely easy to put the current forms support into my
emacs browser - all the typechecking is finished. For things like
sliders and selection lists I imagine it would take twice as long.
I think extending the INT/FLOAT types to have a minimum and maximum
range would be a better idea than sliders. Browsers that have that
capacity could automatically display them as sliders or spinners or
whatever.
I hate to bring up a religious issue, but HTML is supposed to be
presentation-free, so things like <INPUT TYPE="int" MIN="10"
MAX="100"> would be more appropriate.
Am I way off base here? Forms are going to be an extremely
powerful part of the web, and all browsers should be able to access
them.
-Bill P.