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Bug 12494 - Add a scale attribute to the meter element
Summary: Add a scale attribute to the meter element
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement
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Reported: 2011-04-14 14:06 UTC by Olivier Gendrin
Modified: 2013-02-04 23:17 UTC (History)
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Description Olivier Gendrin 2011-04-14 14:06:45 UTC 
(from an old email : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0076.html)

Having a look at meter spec [1], a @scale attribute could be needed
(decimal, log, exponential...) to be efficient.

Example : size of virus compared to atoms and human, or http://xkcd.com/482/.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-07-16 00:04:27 UTC 
Do you have any examples of pages that have meter widgets that aren't linear?
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 15:58:10 UTC 
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 3 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 16:00:55 UTC 
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 4 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2013-02-04 23:17:27 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No spec change
Rationale: 

Interesting idea. In a short brainstorm, I couldn't come up with a non-linear meter that wouldn't usually be presented in a linear fashion (e.g., decibels, Richter scale). If you turn up a good use case for this, I think we could re-consider it...