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(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/.
Do you have any examples of pages that have meter widgets that aren't linear?
Mass move to "HTML WG"
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