Re: Indeterministic progress bar from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2010-03-17 (public-html@w3.org from March 2010)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:08:37 -0500
To: Yael.Aharon@nokia.com
Cc: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <dd0fbad1003161708y3ae80a8bo43fea27167f938f8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM,  <Yael.Aharon@nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Reading through the section "UA Requirements for showing the progress bar"
> in
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-button-element.html#the-progress-element>,
> UAs are required to clearly distinguish between determinate and
> indeterminate progress bars.
>
> Does the working group have some recommendations regarding what should the
> indeterminate progress bar look like?

Indeterminate progress bars are supposed to be "spinners", the
animated images currently used to indicate some delay that are either
spinning circular images or a bar with some line moving through it and
back again.

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 00:09:29 UTC