- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:12:58 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
* Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >That's not 64-bit clean. In WebKit at least our network library can >support correctly reporting progress for files that are larger than >2^32-1. Seems like a bad idea to limit this with large media files >and large amounts of memory becoming more and more common. This >probably argues against using LSProgressEvent as-is. It's too bad >they used "unsigned long" (which is a 32-bit integer type in OMG IDL). It rather seems like a bad idea to report progress of multi-gigabyte downloads with byte-precision. DOM Level 3 Load and Save does not de- fine that the attributes represent a number of octets. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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