The HTML5 meter element lends itself to star ratings perfectly. Using divs with classes seems a bit old-school for today, although the blog post does say how th

The HTML5 meter element lends itself to star ratings perfectly. Using divs with classes seems a bit old-school for today, although the blog post does say how they don't want to use JS for this. I wrote a Raphael powered polyfill for this http://dylanfm.github.com/jquery.ratemate/ http://dylanfm.github.com/jquery.ratemate/. Although it requires Raphael (and JS), at least it's a bit more semantic and has a non-JS fallback in browsers that have native support for the meter element. The plugin also provides a way for controlling star ratings on input type number or range elements. However, this really isn't worth using if you're not including Raphael already (fairly large library). I'm thinking about making a canvas alternative.