Comments on: Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters?

By: Jens

Jens — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:38:41 +0000

“when you upload, it’s the server that counts the data. data packets might be lost on their way to the server, so the actual amount of data that has been uploaded by your browser is completely irrelevant. ”

Complete bullshit. TCP makes the receiver send acknowledgments to the sender.

By: John

John — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:47:32 +0000

The kicker is that Firefox DOES show a progress bar on the status bar when uploading, but it doesn’t show any progress during an upload and just appears constantly “empty.”

By: mgkimsal

mgkimsal — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:08:55 +0000

Perhaps upgrade Flash? The upload bars are done with Flash.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:17:14 +0000

I am wondering why the progress bar doesn’t show up on gmail uploads using the latest Firefox (that uploads on its own). Do I need to update anything else? Thanks!!

Greetings from Mexico!! =)

By: Zony

Zony — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:33:59 +0000

well i see my progress in Opera while uploading (through php for example), i don’t see the prob ><

By: JF

JF — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:26:43 +0000

It might be because the HTML standards doesn't specify anything about file upload. Alternative could be an HTTP upload applet that provides the progress bar and others useful features not available in browser such as compression before upload, resume broken upload and more. JF.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:38:59 +0000

I upload big (~ 2 gb) file via standart . How many time is required? I dont know. Stupid develoreps.

By: frustrated uploader

frustrated uploader — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:37:17 +0000

I’m am completely baffled as to why this isn’t implemented (even as a Firefox extension!!!) As am writing this, I sit here waiting for a 90mb video to finish uploading to YouTube. They provide no AJAX upload indicator, so I’m clueless as to when this will finish. It could be going at 10kbps for all I know.

By: Darrel O'Pry

Darrel O'Pry — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:31:53 +0000

I think a simple answer would be they’re all trying to agree on how to consistently expose the progress information to JS. I think the specification the world is waiting on is:

http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/

I think they’re continuing in the wrong direction. The addition of the XMLHttpRequestUpload seems like step in the wrong direction. There is an standardized protocol for the HTTP request process, and the XMLHttpRequest object should better represent that in it’s own structure rather than trying to bolt on upload progress handling as a specific interface. The important events we’re looking for here are monitoring the client request progress and server response progress.

I think a more natural reflection of the underlying would be extending the object to to have event listeners for both the request and response progress. The natural reflection of the protocol would, hopefully, be easier to understand and learn for web developers who are already familiar with the HTTP protocol.

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