I wonder why no browser out there has such simple but essential feature. Am I missing something? Is there a technical reason?
I’m tired of all those javascript/flash/java hacks out there …
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I wonder why no browser out there has such simple but essential feature. Am I missing something? Is there a technical reason?
I’m tired of all those javascript/flash/java hacks out there …
There is no technical reason preventing the browser from calculating the total bytes to be sent and then tracking how many have been received by the server (Thanks, Kibbee for your comment). Firefox had a functional upload progress indicator until version 0.9, but that build broke it in 2004.
Reading through the Bugzilla updates, it seems that this feature doesn’t seem to benefit enough users to get any traction from the developers.
Users who regularly upload very large files tend to use tools like FTP that are designed for this purpose, so they are not affected.