[whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jan 29 17:48:34 PST 2008


On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure I see what value is added by somehow mandating this 
> > "feature". Evolving browsers will probably add this feature anyway 
> > through competition.
> 
> If it will probably be added in the future anyway shouldn't the spec 
> recommend doing so sooner? I'm not saying that every UA MUST do so but 
> they should (unless they have a good reason not to).

I don't think the spec should be mandating UI for this kind of thing. It 
doesn't affect interoperability.

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