- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:33:59 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
* Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> 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. > >What precision would you propose? It has to be defined to be able to >give a size to the user. What are the use cases for that exactly? You can determine a percentage of progress no matter whether the numbers are in bytes or gigabytes or whatever, and it is not clear to me that the numbers would be meaning- ful if, say, the user agent is behind a data compression proxy, or how any specific unit would be appropriate if you could use a protocol where you don't know the totalSize until late in the transfer, and consider cases where multi-gigabyte resources might be transferred with XHR. If the concern is making [ x bytes of y bytes ] style widgets, I'd suggest we agree on use cases first, and then discuss syntax. -- 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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