On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009 17:09:42 Mike Bush wrote: >> >> I see what a beast the script filter would be now from reading on >> Caja >> and the content filtering already in Freenet, I don't think this is a >> good idea for a first contribution. >> >> I'm interested in the progress bars idea, it would be nice to see >> what's >> happening when a freesite takes ages to load, especially to people >> trying out Freenet for the first time. Could implement a progress >> toadlet at 127.0.0.1:8888/progress/<key>... which could preload the >> file into FProxy whilst updating the status to the browser. > > This much will be implemented soon by me - maybe before 0.8. > However, a *good* > implementation would use javascript to update the progress bar in > real time > etc, and we also need a solution for pages with inline images - > because it > can take some time to fetch an image, and because we have a very > limited > number of HTTP connections, it would be good to display progress bar > like > images while we load the images on a page.
I think that it would be important to isolate such a progress bar plugin to the most common browsers, as other things which may use fred (e.g. like wget for downloading a whole site) would stop at the progress page. -- Robert Hailey _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
