Comments on: GMail Needs a Progress Bar

By: Lenin Chalasani

Lenin Chalasani — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:23:31 +0000

Yeah,

its a kind of lazy stuff i feel when i try to upload more than 5 MB files. GMAIL Needs to have an initiative to put progress bar while uploading. I feel, its a part of UI Rules, that any email upload must be constituted with a progress bar. Progress bar allows lot of advantages in giving comfort to user. ANyways, GMail Team might have their own answer. Better i upload this answer or question in Google GROUPS - GMAIL.

http://groups.google.co.in/group/Gmail-Users?hl=en&lnk=gschg

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:00:47 +0000

GMail has a 10MB maximum per e-mail

By: Kevin Fox

Kevin Fox — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:54:42 +0000

Can you give more details on either the eSellerate or MT examples? Are either of these cases where you're uploading your own content through a web form where the system doesn't otherwise know in advance how large the upload is?

I assume we're talking about a real progress bar shoing % complete and not a pseudo barberpole or logarithmic bar that keeps advancing more and more slowly until the upload is complete.

If there's sample code out there for this I'd love to see it.

By: El Rocco

El Rocco — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:29:58 +0000

You don't need an ActiveX control to show a progress bar whit a file upload...

You just have to manipulate the form data directly. Pretty simple with Perl but you have to use a workaround with PHP (either a Perl script or you patch your PHP installation).

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:48:18 +0000

eSellerate has a progress bar when you upload a disk image or a file to their servers (typically for download) that was pretty darn close to accurate. When you install MovableType you get a progress bar too, and it's fairly accurate. So no, I don't think it requires ActiveX in the least.

By: Kevin Fox

Kevin Fox — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:46:23 +0000

Really? 100 megs? I'll have to take a look at that...

I'd *love* to have a progress bar, but to do that you'd have to know how large the file is, and the only way that a browser will transmit that data is if you put in an ActiveX control, and that doesn't play well with Firefox...

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:14:36 +0000

Bob, they may say that but it's not true. I've sent 100 MB emails and, today, a 160 MB email.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:22:16 +0000

for sending big files try http://www.yousendit.com, not sure if it has an upload progress indicator, but it let's you send files up to 1 gb

By: Bob Lee

Bob Lee — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:56:24 +0000

Gmail has a 10 MB maximum per email:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12363&topic=1516

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:01:15 +0000

I'm sending it to a gmail account, so yes, it can handle it. Why not FTP it? Because that's 160 MB of server space I'd rather not use up.

You're missing the point: gmail could use a progress bar whether it's a 2 MB attachment on a modem or a 160 MB attachment on a 3.5 Mbps connection.