- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:27:52 -0700
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Jonas Sicking wrote: >>>> In many cases the user might know the size even if the implementation >>>> does not. Or it is even imaginable that the script knows the size even >>>> if the XHR class does not. In both these cases the number of bytes >>>> transferred is useful to present. >>> Right, they have currentSize = knownSize * position/total for that, no? >> I'm not following you here. What properties are you proposing to make >> available? > > LSProgress gives you a percentage of how much data has been transferred; > if you know the total size and the total size property on the LSProgress > object match, you can calculate the number of bytes transferred so far, > no matter the units used. The problem lies in if the XHR implementation doesn't know the total size. Then it can't give you a percentage. If it gives you the number of bytes transferred do far, the user or the script can figure out the progress even if the XHR implementation doesn't know the total size. / Jonas
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