[whatwg] Submission progress

[Matthew Thomas]

On 8 Nov, 2004, at 7:34 AM, Afternoon wrote:
> ...
> Modern browsers feature useful rich interfaces for monitoring the 
> progress of file downloads, but are not symmetrical, uploads are 
> second class citizens.
> ...

That's the fault of the browsers; it's nothing to do with any What-WG 
spec. Mozilla doesn't show upload progress, for example 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257975>, but it used to 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24197>.

> ...
> This information should be displayed in a modal popup window, as the 
> browser window or tab is locked during submission.
> ...

As Jim Ley said, there is no need for it to be shown in a modal window. 
Doing that would actually be counterproductive, for three reasons:
(1) trying to cancel a mistaken submission the usual way -- by clicking
     the Stop button in the toolbar -- wouldn't work, so mistaken
     submissions would be *more* likely to happen;
(2) some window managers don't allow a window to be moved or minimized
     if a modal child window is open (so you wouldn't be able to minimize
     the browser window while waiting for the upload to finish);
(3) it would be inconsistent with other progress windows, which are
     almost always non-modal.

But again, that's nothing to do with What-WG.

-- 
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/