sbp commented on issue #331: URL: https://github.com/apache/tooling-trusted-releases/issues/331#issuecomment-3553101137
I would like to add a progress indicator and aim to do so. An interesting piece of history: Firefox used to have a built in progress indicator for file uploads, but it broke in version 0.9 in 2004. The issue for this, [Bug 249338](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249338), is still open after 21 years. There's a [representative comment](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249338#c61) from [Sebastian Lisken](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=65459) in this thread from when the bug was briefly closed before being reopened: > Can you give some explanation why you're closing this bug as "won't fix"? It really doesn't make sense to me why user agents don't display upload progress by default. I do know Upload Progress, but as the developer of a simple file-sharing site (private and for collaboration purposes) I also know how often I need to explain to my users that it should not be the server's task to inform users about the progress of an upload. It's so much more natural for the user agent to do this. The thread also alludes to IE and Chrome having supported a file upload progress indicator. Why did all three browsers apparently lose this functionality? Uploads are historically smaller than downloads, not performed as concurrently, and do not need to access the local filesystem with write permissions. This combination of factors likely led to the need for this functionality being overlooked. The increasing prevalence of local solutions indicates, however, that the factors are diminishing in importance. I think that Lisken was already justified in making the comment above in 2016, and is even more so now. Again, despite this, I would like to add a progress indicator to ATR and aim to do so. We do not have the remit to add this functionality to the leading open source browsers, despite that being the proper solution which would advantage all. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
