[whatwg] Status bars and progress indicators

[Matthew Raymond]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>HTML shouldn't give the user agent any kind of direction on rendering
>of controls, and gage kind of makes me thing of dials and speedometers
>:D
>
>How about:
><indicator>
>or...
><progress>
>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.