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Cameron Moll

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Cameron Moll Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and four sons. He's the founder of Authentic Jobs Inc, among other endeavors.

This site is a compendium of design, HTML5/CSS3, DSLR video, Apple, mobile, and other miscellaneous banter.

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Monday 19 April 2010

New HTML5 Form Field Type: range

Amidst all the HTML5 buzz over the past year, somehow I missed this: HTML5 offers a new input field type, type="range", which renders a UI slider for entering data anywhere between the min and max values you specify.

This feature could become as useful as CSS multiple backgrounds, in that a) it’s long overdue and b) we’re already faking it all over the web.

The HTML5 presentation from which this slide was taken, by the way, is wonderful. It’s an interactive teaching tool on the subject of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript APIs. Slide 41 is really wild—press 3, then arrow left or right.

Update: I failed to mention these slides are best viewed with a browser that already supports these features, i.e. Safari or Chrome.

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