Based on everyone's feedback, I've removed the ability to use % in
value= attribute values for progress and meter. This simplified the
processing model quite a bit.
You can still use percentages (and per-mille, and so forth) if you put the
content in-line, which is the recommended behaviour:
Ian Hickson wrote:
[snip]
This seems to be a case where there should be one, and preferably
only one, obvious way to do it holds.
Well, there are two ways -- update the textContent, and update the
attribute. But for the attribute, there's only one syntax. We could remove
the attribute as
Hi,
From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, there are two ways -- update the textContent, and update the
attribute. But for the attribute, there's only one syntax. We could remove
the attribute as well, and force authors to use textContent, though...
I think it's good to have a value=
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:49:15 +0800, Simon Pieters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I think it's good to have a value= attribute, because you might want
to have both plain text and an indicator, as can be seen in Hotmail:
p12% of 250 MB meter value=0.12/meter/p
I think CSS is more appropriate
Hello
I18N Matter for Progress:
The spec says :
If the value attribute is omitted, then user agents must also parse the
textContent of the
progress element in question using the steps for finding one or two numbers in a string
. These steps will return nothing, one number, one number with a
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, fantasai wrote:
Another issue is the possible use of U+2212 MINUS SIGN intead of U+002D
HYPHEN-MINUS. This last, at least, should be handled whenever the number
is parsed from the text content rather than in an attribute.
In the text, negative
Greetings,
Henri Sivonen wrote:
It isn't redundant when they are not the same thing. They are not the
same thing here.
Have you read mpt's earlier posts on the topic?
http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-September/002211.html
Yes, I have read mpt's (and others')
Hi,
From: Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What do people think? Is it valuable to be able to do:
progress value=5%/
...instead of either of these:
progress value=0.05/
progress5%/progress
...?
No, direct relationship to the DOM makes implementation and authoring more
straight
