New HTML5 Form Field Type: range

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...