- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:26:26 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Bjoern Hoehrmann 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. As someone who regularly transfers files many gigabytes in size, I would request that you please provide the numbers in consistent units (bytes) if you provide them at all. I don't want to have to back-compute the bytes transferred or have to special case different sizes of files. Bytes are nice and simple and work. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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