A useful coincidence: just after I wrote my concerns about the progress element, the WebKit nightly contains the first implementation of this element. I created an application to test the element. It works as I expected, and is somewhat accessible, though Mac’s VoiceOver would only voice the progress when the element first receives focus. Note, support for the […]
Category: HTML5
One of the new HTML5 elements is the progress element. It’s an element that allows the web page developer to provide minimum, maximum, and current value attributes, and the browsers update the appearance accordingly. If the value attribute isn’t present, the progress element is considered an indeterminate progress element. In other words, a throbber, such as this example, created using […]
I had planned on providing more edits to my change proposals, but doing so is only throwing good time away on a hopeless cause. I can’t even get the HTML5 co-chairs to realize that by allowing those who proposed a counter-proposal to group all of the items in only one response, they’ve made individual discussion […]
My change proposal for Issue 95 is about removing the hidden attribute[1]: The HTML5 specification states the following about this attribute[2]: All HTML elements may have the hidden content attribute set. The hidden attribute is a boolean attribute. When specified on an element, it indicates that the element is not yet, or is no longer, […]
When last I posted, I was confident I would be finished with my change proposals for the HTML5 by now. Little did I suspect at how strong a reaction my proposals would have, or how emotional the discussions would become. Some of the responses were humorous, such as when I was called a “deletionist”, of […]