[Bug 12943] Drop progress.position IDL or make it settable

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12943

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #11 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-12-02 18:23:20 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I think we're not reading the same thing on [2], because that's what I read on
> "value" and "step" attributes:
> 
> Value    Gets or sets the current position of the progress bar.
> Step    Gets or sets the amount by which a call to the PerformStep method
> increases the current position of the progress bar.

In this API, value is the number from min to max. Changing the value thus sets
the position, which is the fraction of the bar that is filled.

I don't question that there are APIs that don't use "position".


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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: No argument was presented for describing why you would want to
change the position directly rather than through the value; the feature is a
convenience API that allows authors to expose the current state in other
manners trivially (e.g. as a percentage just by multiplying by 100 and
truncating appropriately), and no argument was presented for why this is a bad
thing to provide; and regarding the name, "position" seems like the best term
suggested so far.

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Received on Friday, 2 December 2011 18:23:24 UTC