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Currently, the specs say that meter should be shown vertically when height>width but nothing similar is said for the progress element. I do believe this should be done too given that most systems support vertical progress bars (Windows, GNU/Linux (with GTK at least) and MacOS X). And, really, a progress bar with a height higher than it's width wouldn't look nice... A paragraph like this one should be added: When the element is wider than it is tall (or square), the depiction is expected to be of a horizontal progress bar, with the start on the right and the end on the left if the 'direction' property on this element has a computed value of 'rtl', and with the start on the left and the end on the right otherwise. When the element is taller than it is wide, it is expected to depict a vertical progress bar, with the start on the bottom and the end on the top. Removing the end of the first paragraph would also be needed.
Yeah that makes sense.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6089. Check-in comment: Suggest more adaptive renderings for progress bars. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6088&to=6089
mass-move component to LC1