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

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

           Summary: Drop progress.position IDL or make it settable
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: lucas.sa@gmail.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


The position IDL in progress element[1] is not necessary, since
authors/developers already have both value and max attributes in DOM (position
is basically = value/max -- when both max and value are defined). Being
read-only, it contributes almost nothing.

Since position represents the percentage of progress completion (between 0.0
and 1.0), another option would be to drop the read-only constraint on the
position IDL and oblige user agents to compute and update the respective value
when setting a given position. In that case, if the progress bar was an
indeterminate progress bar, UAs might ignore changes to position attribute.


[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#dom-progress-position

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Received on Sunday, 12 June 2011 07:04:09 UTC