Progress bars

GUI95

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0% — ready

Ready — try the example.

States and behavior

Determinate, indeterminate, complete and canceled.

Keyboard

The bar is not a Tab stop. Buttons operate this manually advanced demonstration.

Scope and adaptation

Use a real job’s measurements in an app; do not invent percentages. Announce milestones instead of every animation frame.

Sources

Microsoft preliminary guide (1995), chapters 7–8

Original implementation; system colors are represented by CSS variables. The default 13 px system-font stack is a readable browser adaptation. The 1995 source is preliminary, not a final product specification. Test the target browser and native host before shipping.