- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:00:17 -0300
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Adrian Bateman<adrianba@microsoft.com> wrote: >> <meter> does seem like a corner case - I'm also not convinced it would be broadly used. <progress> seems like a reasonable control - it supports both the progress and activity use cases that Windows also provides. I agree with Jonas that it's unlikely to get broad adoption without styling support. > > Assuming proper styling controls, meters are used *everywhere*. Think > about every time you see a rating site that gives a movie 4 stars, for > example. Interesting, that's the first time I've heard of a common use of something that could use <meter>s. Do you have more examples? (Asking since you say "*everywhere*"). > Without proper styling these sorts of cases won't use <meter>, but > with styling (done in such a way as to make these kinds of things > easy), I think you'll see a lot of use. One possibility is to wait with <meter> until there are at least proposals for how to style it. / Jonas
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