[whatwg] <progress> draft

[James Graham]

Simon Pieters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> From: Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>
>> What do people think? Is it valuable to be able to do:
>>
>>    <progress value="5%"/>
>>
>> ...instead of either of these:
>>
>>    <progress value="0.05"/>
>>    <progress>5%</progress>
>>
>> ...?
> 
> No, direct relationship to the DOM makes implementation and authoring 
> more straight forward, I think. I don't see much advantage in allowing 
> different formats in the value="".

+1
This seems to be a case where "there should be one, and preferably only 
one, obvious way to do it" holds.

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