Re: [whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

2008-11-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: Consider a form with a file input. User selects a huge file and hits submit. Most UAs do not display nothing but an animated throbber until the full submit is done and the download progress bar only starts to do anything after the full submit

Re: [whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

2008-01-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: I'm not sure I see what value is added by somehow mandating this feature. Evolving browsers will probably add this feature anyway through competition. If it will probably be added in the future anyway shouldn't the spec recommend doing

Re: [whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

2008-01-27 Thread timeless
On Jan 25, 2008 2:48 PM, Mikko Rantalainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's wise to always trying to minimize the battery usage in a battery operated device. However, if the device is already using wireless or wired communication for transmitting the data set it cannot just do nothing. from my

Re: [whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

2008-01-25 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
timeless wrote: On 1/24/08, Mikko Rantalainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that WF2 section 5.6 (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#methodAndEnctypes) should be modified to say something along the lines User agents with interactive user interfaces should inform the user

[whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

2008-01-24 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
Consider a form with a file input. User selects a huge file and hits submit. Most UAs do not display nothing but an animated throbber until the full submit is done and the download progress bar only starts to do anything after the full submit part is already done. An another example could be a

Re: [whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

2008-01-24 Thread timeless
On 1/24/08, Mikko Rantalainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider a form with a file input. User selects a huge file and hits submit. Most UAs do not display nothing but an animated throbber until the full submit is done and the download progress bar only starts to do anything after the full