[whatwg] meter and document conformance

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Aug 11 17:58:43 PDT 2008


On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2006, at 14:32, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> 
> > Is a document non-conforming if it contains a meter element that does not
> > have a value attribute and the algorithm http://whatwg.org/
> > specs/web-apps/current-work/#steps fails to return either number1 and
> > denominator or number1 and number2?
> > 
> > I think such documents should be non-conforming.
> 
> The same question and opinion apply to progress as well.

No, a <progress> element with no max and value is just an indeterminate 
progress bar.

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