Re: [ProgressEvents]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com> wrote:
>> Hello webapps wg,
>>
>> On behalf of the SVG WG I'd like to propose adding to the ProgressEvents spec[1] an event equivalent to the 'loadend' (previously known as 'SVGPostLoad') event currently defined in SVG Tiny 1.2 [2].
>>
>> The 'loadend' event is dispatched by completion of a load, no matter if it was successful or not. In terms of the ProgressEvents spec the 'loadend' event would be dispatched following either of 'abort', 'load' or 'error', and there must be exactly one 'loadend' event dispatched. In the Event definitions table it would look like this:
>>
>> Name: loadend
>> Description: The operation completed
>> How often?: once
>> When?:  Must be dispatched last
>>
> 
> If the event were dispatched last, and there was a progress bar, plus
> an overlay, then the success handler would fire before the progress
> bar + overlay were hidden/removed.
> 
> Please see also:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008JulSep/0537.html

I would be in support of adding such an event. And I agree with Garrett 
that it makes more sense to dispatch it before the load/abort/error 
event is dispatched. In fact, we could even make the default behavior of 
the loadend event be dispatching one of the above three, thus allowing 
them to be canceled by calling .preventDefault on the loadend event.

Would be interested to hear Ollis feedback given that he recently 
implemented progress events for XHR in firefox.

/ Jonas

Received on Monday, 8 September 2008 09:27:33 UTC