[whatwg] Form submission progress display by UA (incl. file upload)
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed Nov 5 07:44:05 PST 2008
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
>
> Consider a form with a file input. User selects a huge file and hits
> submit. Most UAs do not display nothing but an animated throbber until
> the full submit is done and the download progress bar only starts to do
> anything after the full submit part is already done. An another example
> could be a long blog article that is being sent over an GPRS mobile
> connection (with common speeds around 9kbps).
>
> I think that WF2 section 5.6
> (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#methodAndEnctypes)
> should be modified to say something along the lines
>
> "User agents with interactive user interfaces should inform the user
> about the progress of the data submission. For example, an UA with a
> graphical user interface could display a visual progress bar which would
> be updated once every second; the bar would be initially displayed as
> empty and would fill over time as the encoded form data set is
> transmitted. For transmissions that take more than a few seconds UA
> might in addition display estimated time before done."
>
> Rationale: Upload progress monitoring is becoming more important every
> day as browsers are often used for content authoring, the digital
> content gets bigger and common user connections are highly asymmetric
> (e.g. 24mbps downstream, 1mbps upstream in case of ADSL2+). The delay
> expected by the user for sending a 100MB file could be close to
> downloading a 100MB which is not the reality. An user in a hurry would
> hit stop button and retry again after waiting for some time without
> knowing that upload is in progress.
I don't think we really should be saying anything about UI to this level
of detail. We don't say that there should be a progress bar when the page
loads, either. I recommend petitioning your UA implementor to add this.
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