- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:38 -0400
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk at opera.com> wrote: > You seem to base most of your argument on that <progress> will not be stylable. I think the idea is that it will be stylable though. Yes, I guess I got sort of sidetracked. I assume the idea is that it will be styleable eventually, but I don't see how it would work with existing CSS properties, so I'd assume it would take significant implementation effort and not happen very soon. I don't think it will be used very widely or usefully until it becomes styleable. Beyond that, the use-cases just seem very narrow compared to other elements invented in HTML 5. The number of progress bars needed on the web is pretty modest, and the gains from marking them up semantically don't seem to be large. For some particular types of progress bars, <progress> gives better accessibility than any straightforward existing possibility I can think of, but a) authors concerned about accessibility could usually add some kind of text without any trouble, and b) the progress of some activity is rarely critical information in web apps, so if you're missing it you usually won't be missing much anyway.
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