- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 16:02:26 +1200
On May 6, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote: > ... > A lot of people are implementing progress bars that show in real time > the upload status of files being uploaded. > > Right now it's a pain to implement that kind of functionality, as the > browser has to poll regularly the server with a secondary connection > to get the total size of the request, and the number of bytes already > received. > > Given that the browser already knows that information, I think it > would be great if it could expose it on some DOM object. What do you > think? > ... A much easier and more consistent approach would be for the browser to show the upload progress itself. Complain to your friendly local browser vendor. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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