On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:49:08 +1100, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anne, Ian and I were discussing the fact that the Progress Events > spec requires duplicates of every event for upload as well as > download. This makes the spec a fair bit more complicated, especially > if it ends up specifying a number of different progress events. > > As far as I know, this feature is only needed for XMLHttpRequest, > since it's the only obvious element we can think of that does both > upload and download, and where it's important to keep the two separate. > > However, we thought of a possible alternate design that might cover > this case better. In brief, the idea is to use the same set of events > for upload and download, but to provide a separate EventTarget > attached to the XMLHttpRequest object, which is the target all the > upload-related events; XHR itself only dispatches the download events. ... > This would require a change in XHR to adopt the Progress Events spec, > but would considerably simplify Progress Events. Thoughts? Works for me... Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com
