Re: ISSUE-37: [Progress] Use unsigned long long for .loaded and .total

32 bits isn't nearly enough for video or even streaming audio (just 2-4
days of low bitrate streaming will pass the 4 GB barrier). Opera's
work-in-progress implementation already uses 64 bits, although the
double representation will cause inaccuracy at somewhere over 52 bits. I
support changing the spec and living with the "double bug" until someone
actually needs > 52 bits, which should be about 4 petabytes.

Philip

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 01:36 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:25:34 +0200, Web Applications Working Group Issue  
> Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> > ISSUE-37: [Progress] Use unsigned long long for .loaded and .total
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/issues/
> >
> > Raised by: Olli Pettay
> > On product:
> >
> > Since Progress Events is used also for <video>,  unsigned long long  
> > would be better than unsigned long.
> >
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008AprJun/0225.html
> 
> Makes sense to me (at first glance). Any dissent?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
> 
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Philip Jägenstedt
Opera Software

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