- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:46:53 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Smylers wrote: > Ian Hickson writes: > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Adrian Bateman wrote: > > > > > Personally, I'd prefer to remove the element content parsing and > > > always make the progress bar rendering depend on the attributes. > > > > I guess we could do that; what do other people think? > > When I gave a conference presention introducing HTML 5 the content > parsing of <progress> was one of two points to get spontaneous applause > from the audience (the other was the HTML 5 doctype). > > The audience were programmers, so I guess the notion of 'don't repeat > yourself' appealed -- not having to specify the same thing in both the > fallback text and the attributes, and risking one being updated without > the other. On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > Agreed precisely; the content parsing is both useful (in that we only > have to specify things once, visible vs invisible metadata and all that) > and just plain cool. ^_^ > > Removing it would immediately kill a lot of the appeal of the element, > and almost certainly end up with more people *only* updating the > attributes and letting the content drift out of sync (once <progress> > starts getting UA support, that is). Ok. Left it in. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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