- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:28:37 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote: > > A standard <progressmeter> (or <progress>) element might be useful, so > that non-page progress indication can be more consistent, instead of > every app developer coming up with their own zany animation. For > backward compatibility, it could be a container element, like this: > > <progressmeter>(86 %)</progressmeter> Uploaded 46 K of 54 K > > A graphical UA would take the "(86 %)", strip out the non-numeric stuff (i.e. > everything except the "86" and the "%"), recognize it as 0.86, and replace the > element with a graphical progress meter representing that fraction: > ________ > [(((((((():] Uploaded 46 K of 54 K > > If such an element is introduced, a <gauge> element should be introduced at > exactly the same time, so that the Web doesn't fall into the same trap Mac OS > did when it had one but not the other, and developers were confusing people by > using progress indicators to indicate non-progress fractions (like relevance > and quota usage). > > <dt><a href="http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/webforms2.html">Web > Forms 2.0 - notes and comments</a></dt> > <dd class="uri">http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/webforms2.html</dd> > <dd>Relevance: <gauge>14 %</gauge></dd> > > Which in a graphical UA would produce: > > _Web Forms 2.0 - notes and comments_ > http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/webforms2.html > Relevance: [##:::::::::] Agreed. I've added a placeholder section for now while I look at all the feedback that came on this thread (I saw there was a lot of it!). Once I've read all the messages on this thread I'll write up a basic proposal for people to comment on. And yeah, I agree that progress and gauge are separate and should both be supported. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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