280779 - API for web page scripts to determine progress of file upload

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[Micha Schopman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

For years and years developers like to present the client with an indicator
presenting clients with indicators indicating the amount or percentage of their
files being uploaded, when using <input type="file">.

Since you are actually transfering the file by the browser, I don't guess there
are any security or privacy regulations involved with retrieving:

total filesize in bytes
amounts of bytes send
average transfer speed in bytes

This would offer us developers with a new level of user interface design for the
web. I would love such a function, and I am convinced others do to. :)

So, would you consider such an enhancement. Firefox would be the first browser
with such integration, that is really unique and let FireFox stand out even more
on the part of web application development.

It would be cool if these details would be made available on the input field
itself as an readonly attribute.
alert(document.forms['myform'].elements['inputfield'].bytesSend); for example.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

see also bug 249338, although it only speaks about the progressbar itself

Comment 2

[Micha Schopman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> see also bug 249338, although it only speaks about the progressbar itself

The statusbar is different functionality. This is new functionality, exposing 
upload status for reuse by javascript.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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