- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 02:43:11 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Jim Jewett wrote: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ uses status.js and > status.css to create a popup showing status. > > It shows status of the section (such as "Awaiting implementation > feedback" or "Controversial Working Draft"), the number of tests, the > number of demos, implementation status for each of (in practice) 5 > implementations, and last-updated information. > > Am I correct in believing that the implementation statuses would ideally > be a set of <progress> elements, even though the progress level won't be > likely finish (or even change) during one reading? (And the same for > overall section status?) I think opinions on this are split, and we probably won't be able to determine for sure whether such UI is a good idea or not without more experience with this in the wild. > If so, it looks like this is an example of wanting to style based on an > arbitrary number of categories/thresholds (here done with classes), and > also a fairly good example of the sort of styling that might be desired. > (Currently done with dt/dd for the implementation status.) Sure. The data-* and class="" attributes are pretty much designed for this, as far as I can tell. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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