Re: FileReader question about ProgressEvent

On 4/21/10 1:51 AM, Jian Li wrote:
> According to the spec, we will dispatch a progress event for a read
> method. But per the "Progress Events 1.0" spec, the attributes "loaded"
> and "total" are defined  as "unsigned long".
>     interface ProgressEvent : events::Event {
>          ...
>          readonly attribute unsigned long   loaded;
>          readonly attribute unsigned long   total;
>          ...
>
> The type "unsigned long" is not enough to represent the file size. Do we
> want to update the Progress Event spec to use "unsigned long long"? Or
> we could limit the FileReader to only read from the file with size less
> than MAX_UINT.
>
>
> Jian
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http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/progress/Progress.html
loaded is long long and so is total too.

-Olli