- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:04:26 +0300
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 2, 2009, at 01:00, Jonas Sicking wrote: > 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*"). * Relevance of search results. (As seen in Mail.app on the desktop.) * Proportion of storage quota used in a cloud service. * Battery left on a device in a Web-based management UI of a battery- operated device. (As seen in System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Bluetooth on Leopard.) >> 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. The main problem with providing <progress> but not <meter> is that authors would abuse progress bars as level indicators. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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