Should bars in HTML progress, meter & input=range elements be read upwards or downwards in vertical text?
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Description
Background
This question was prompted by the HTML issue at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8413
Currently, Blink and WebKit don't make these inline controls vertical (see https://github.com/w3c/clreq/issues/247).
Gecko, however, does display the control vertically, but the reading direction of the progress bar when progress or meter elements are used in HTML is bottom to top. The following example and test contains Japanese text, but should work the same for Chinese.
Question
Is it preferable for the direction of the control to follow the direction of the surrounding text (ie. start at the top of the control), or should it always progress from bottom to top?
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