Just a guess, but I think it's because progress bars are misleading. If you show a bar for just the progress on the HTML, you reach 100% before the page even displays right; if you wait for all subresources to load, you will hover below 100% as large images or slow subresources load (you ever notice how some sites will often have "waiting for someadnetwork.com" in the status bar even after it feels like site is done loading?). Add to that that it's difficult to know how far you are along in loading resources: there's HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding and HTTP 0.9 without a content-length header, and then there are apps like gmail that do a bunch of tricks with subframes and javascript to present a multi-stage loading process.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Jickae Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wonderring why Chrome and Safari don't add a progress bar which > indicates the progress of loading a html page. > I took a look at all the ViewMsg and ViewHostMsg, and didn't find anything > related. > So, is that unimpossible to create such a progress bar? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
