You mentioned Java script being needed for my idea to work. Couldn't Fred do some work and then spit out the page as normal HTML?
The colour coded bar was indeed supposed to be the same idea Bombe's blocks idea but just more compact. Can you not think of some way a scalable progress bar such as the one I proposed be rendered as a HTML page? This is a really crazy idea but if you couldn't do this in a HMTL page, could you actually have a coded program that handles downloading from Freenet? I'm guessing no but I thought I'd just put it up for discussion anyway. > -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Matthew Toseland > Sent: 19 December 2002 22:10 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] SplitFileRequestServlet > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:58:35PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:54:54PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > > Looks just as messy as the current implementation IMO. Please take a > > > > look at my proposal. I'd like to hear your opinions of it. I knocked > it > > > > up in Paint in a few minutes ^_^ > > > > > Doesn't work. Can't work. > > > > I see no reason why not - redundant or not, perhaps you can offer a > > proper reason? > If we just show the color-coded-bar, we give the user no clear > indication of how close we are to completion, because the bar (being > multicolored, as he shows, representing different completion status for > different blocks) would have to show all blocks in the splitfile, which > is more than just-the-number-of-blocks-we-want. I dunno, maybe we fill > green (got it) from one end, red from the other (given up), and have a > black border around the area representing the first two thirds (or > whatever it is for this particular splitfile), so when the > black-bordered-area gets filled up with green we've succeeded, or when > the red gets to the black bordered area we've failed. > > > > Ian. > > > > -- > > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ > > > > -- > Matthew Toseland > toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > amphibian at users.sourceforge.net > Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. > Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03 > http://freenetproject.org/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
