On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:30:06PM -0000, Simon Porter wrote: > 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?
Javascript will only be needed to get your progress bar to pop-up in another Window, but without it, we can still have it just appear in an ordinary browser window. > 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 easy, in fact, Bombe has already done something similar with the load indicator on the Freenet gateway 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. It could be achieved using a Java Applet, but I don't think that is necessary and it would create all-sorts of cross-browser compatability issues. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021219/368ef081/attachment.pgp>
