On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:48:09 +1100, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote: >> POST can upload a pile of stuff, and then download a body. So there >> are >> two parts of the transaction whose progress would be useful to track. >> Further, these are in principle synchronous, and you don't know >> anything at all about the second part until you have finished the >> first >> one. > > The upload part would be represented via events on xhr.upload, if we > go with the recent proposal. The download would be events on the > XMLHttpRequest object itself. > >> Are there other problems of this nature? Is the best solution to make >> this the problem of XHR and similar specs that allow this >> situation, or >> to provide something in the progress spec? > > I think we decided to leave this to other specs to solve - any object > that does both upload and download should provide separate event > targets. Works for me. I will try to clarify in the next draft of the specification that other specifications should describe where and when to fire these events. I suppose it is also possible to write a spec for something that has multiple operations firing progress - say, downloading a page and all its linked resources. If someone wanted to do that. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Opera 9.1 http://opera.com
