[Bug 8555] Remove the Meter Element

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8555


Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>  2009-12-27 13:10:16 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
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> Even the graphical example about half way through the section, showing Usenet
> subscriptions, doesn't really add much information. One can see that 618
> subscribers is significantly more than 22, just by reading the numbers--one
> doesn't to see a picture to comprehend the difference. On the contrary, without
> understanding why there seems to be an upper range, the gauge doesn't mean a
> lot. Is the upper range a Usenet limit? The largest Usenet membership? Some
> arbitrary number picked so one can have a cool picture? 
...

It might be that there could be reasons to question the "<meter>" element.
However, with regard to the Usenet example,  then its code example looks like
this:

<p><meter value="0.5">Moderate activity,</meter> Usenet, 618 subscribers</p>

I could be wrong, but based on the code, it seems to me that the "moderate
activity" here is not related to the numbers of subscribers but to the amount
of activity within the group. Clearly, the activity level, is nothing more than
the amount of postings withing a certain time frame.  (Thus the activity could
have been measured and presented in numbers.)  The activity level is related to
the amount of subscribers, probably, but not necessarily one-to-one. There
could be many members but little activity.

One could however, in my view, imagine that <meter> could be used to indicate
if a group had few, on average or many members - if such a presentation would
be useful for the readers.

I agree that the example however is a bit unclear: When I look at the activity
meter then there is no way that I can know what it tries to tell me, as it
lacks any  caption saying "Activity level last week" - or something like that.


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