ISSUE-104 - Public View

Value of progress event total when it cannot be determined

State:
CLOSED
Product:
Progress Event
Raised by:
Charles Mccathienevile
Opened on:
2007-01-07
Description:
What should this be. I don't think we should set a very big number and 
hope that nobody needs to deal with that. I am more inclined to set it 
at zero. If you get zero, either the thing is empty or undefined - 
still not ideal.

If you leave it as undefined, then people will have to check 
lengthComputable before they know if the value is meaningful.

The alternative is to make it a negative value but I am not mad keen on 
doing that.

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Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-104: Value of progress event total when it cannot be determined (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2007-01-07)

Related notes:

2007-01-25: We make it zero. Since the use case for progress events where you are transferring a zero-length object is really small, it seemed reasonable to suffer the potential ambiguity. So we also dropped lengthComputable...