However, I want the CSS to be simple, with a proper range fallback for browsers that don't support fancy styling.
Also, mobile would benefit from a very large target area, and being able to click anywhere on the bar to jump there (right now, you have to hit the thumb target before moving an input range on iOS).
To summarize:
Easy to recognize as a slider that you can click/touch and drag.
Simple implementation with an obvious fallback (i.e. range slider).
Something like this YouTube-style slider would be awesome, since people instantly recognize it: http://codepen.io/jonomcleish/pen/rDIsJ
However, I want the CSS to be simple, with a proper
rangefallback for browsers that don't support fancy styling.Also, mobile would benefit from a very large target area, and being able to click anywhere on the bar to jump there (right now, you have to hit the thumb target before moving an input range on iOS).
To summarize: