I was looking for a way that I can show a (gmail-like) progress bar when the page is loading js file. reading this post I wrote a code that helped me to show the progress bar in mozilla FireFox as this other post states!
var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.addEventListener("progress", updateProgress, false);
oReq.addEventListener("load", transferComplete, false);
oReq.addEventListener("error", transferFailed, false);
oReq.addEventListener("abort", transferCanceled, false);
oReq.open();
// ...
// progress on transfers from the server to the client (downloads)
function updateProgress (oEvent) {
if (oEvent.lengthComputable) {
var percentComplete = oEvent.loaded / oEvent.total;
// ...
} else {
// Unable to compute progress information since the total size is unknown
}
}
function transferComplete(evt) {
alert("The transfer is complete.");
}
function transferFailed(evt) {
alert("An error occurred while transferring the file.");
}
function transferCanceled(evt) {
alert("The transfer has been canceled by the user.");
}
I would like to write a cross browsers solution How to do it?