[whatwg] <progress> draft

fantasai fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Tue Mar 28 20:55:00 PST 2006


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 numbers aren't supported (if you use the fallback to 
> source the numbers, the minimum is fixed to 0 and the maximum must be 
> greater).

Not for progress, but for <meter>, you should be able to.

# Note: The meter element should not be used to indicate progress (as in a
# progress bar). For that role, HTML provides a separate progress  element.

I think this should be normative.

~fantasai



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