Re: Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

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On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:27 pm, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>> On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:

>> Why don't you ask the guys who write BROWSERS why *they* don't
>> provide
>> a nice API/interface to display progress, or, better yet, why the
>> browser itself doesn't just do it once and for all for everybody?
>
> let's consider that 99% of all clients would want a 'nice' looking
> progress bar (in the same way they often asking me to do something
> about the std form fields, which they consider ugly).
>
> i.e. it would just be moving the problem somewhere else in practical
> terms, in so far as we'd probably still have to figure out hacks to
> make
> the bl**dy thing look nice (in the eyes of the guy/girl paying the
> bill ;-)

Well, yes, if the browser doesn't provide "hooks" for the look n feel
of the darn thing, we're not solving anything.

I still don't think a progress meter for browsers is something that
belongs in PHP in any way, shape, or form.

Please note my other much longer post on useful server-side
statistical info about file uploads, however.

There *IS* a progress meter on some browsers down in the status bar,
or in other places, which, apparently, the average user is too
clueless to notice consciously.

Though I have noted that semi-experienced users "know" it is there
subconsciously if you ask them the right questions about how far along
the upload is.

Very weird animal, those users... :-)

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