- From: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:53:20 +0300
Matthew Raymond wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>HTML shouldn't give the user agent any kind of direction on rendering >> >>How about: >>or... >><status> > > You're thinking <progressmeter>, which was already suggested. The > element <gauge>/<gage> (I do not pretend to have accurate information on > which spelling is more widely used), is intended to show a percentage in > situations where a progress meter would be confusing, like in search > engines where they give you a percent match to your query. This need not > resemble a progress bar. +1 for "status". I think "gauge" (I prefer this spelling even though I live in Finland) gives too much direction for rendering. Somehow I immediately think round display when somebody says "gauge". Regardless of the word that ends up being used I think the element should also have property to tell which value is "GOOD" and which is "BAD". For example, for search results having 95% to render as green bar is okay whereas 95% for CPU temperature is bad and it should be rendered as red. Obviously the indicator for good/bad could be something else but color but you get the idea. Make sure to support status/gauge where good value is something in between. For example, think motor temperature of an automobile; it's bad if it's too low and it's bad if it's too high. -- Mikko
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