Hi Dean, Thank you for the feedback. We have floated the idea to the WHATWG mailing list, and are attempting to build enough support to draft a proper proposal.
-Bear On 1/23/12 2:55 PM, "Dean Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 17/01/2012, at 10:41 AM, Bear Travis wrote: > >> A group of us at Adobe has been looking into adding support for >>ProgressEvents >> to images. The overall goal is to simplify image download progress >>reporting >> by supporting roughly the same progress events as XHR and the File API >>for >> image elements. For example one could connect an image to a progress >>element >> like this: >> >> <img id="image" src="sample.jpg" >> onloadstart="showProgressBar()" >> onprogress="updateProgressBar(event)" >> onloadend="hideProgressBar()"/> >> >> Developers have taken various tacks to enable progress reporting, for >>example >> in some cases XHR can be used to download image files. Max Vujovic >>just >> published a blog about the practicalities of doing so: >> http://blogs.adobe.com/openweb/2012/01/13/html5-image-progress-events/. >> We >> think it would be preferable to provide support for image progress >>events >> directly. > >I think this would be extremely useful. It would require a proposal to >W3C or WHATWG though. > >Dean > >> >> We're working on a prototype implementation for WebKit and have filed a >>bug >> that explains what we're up to in a little more detail: >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76102 >> >> It's probably worth pointing out that the beforeload event, which is >>currently >> under discussion, addresses a different use case. Our proposal is >>intended to >> enable applications to give the user feedback about image download >>progress, >> it's not intended to enable security or efficiency by preemptively >>blocking or >> transforming image downloads. >> >> We'd appreciate feedback on this proposal. >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
