Platform/Features/Progress Element

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
<progress>	Patches ready and reviewed except vertical progress bars.	2011-05-30	Mounir Lamouri

Summary

Implementation of the <progress> element, a form widget to show a progression.

See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-button-element.html#the-progress-element

Team

• Feature Manager: Mounir Lamouri
• Developer: Mounir Lamouri
• Product Manager:
• Accessibility: David Bolter
• QA: Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)

Release Requirements

• Follow specifications (except if on purpose)
• Have a good native UI
• Being able to style the element
• Accessible

Steps

• Review specifications
• Implement the content part
• Implement the layout part
• Use native style on GTK (GNU/Linux), MacOS X and Windows (XP to 7)
• Author styling
• Make sure the element is accessible
• Implement the vertical progress bar (layout + native style)
• Nice default UI

Open Issues

• Accessibility plans (bug 559773) (David Bolter)
• What to do with vertical progress bars? Should we have this to ship? (bug 638540) (Mounir Lamouri)
• Should we ship with a nice default UI (when non-native)? (bug 644361) (Mounir Lamouri)

Designs

HTML spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-button-element.html#the-progress-element

Test Plans

• Conformance tests (against specs)
• Rendering tests for layout
• Trying to have all bits of the patches tested

Goals

Have an implementation that can be used by authors as soon as it is released.