File copying really does occur at the application level. Sure, there may be API's for this, but they are little more than a simple loop reading and writing the data too and from the source.
Take a look at file explorer. It has had a progress bar for a long time, but that can't be done with the standard API's (now with IE 4/5 it can be).
As for the throttling, I suppose that has it's uses. But that too is not too difficult, just a bit of Sleep()ing. (or a timer)
I have heard so many complaints about how IE is inseparable from the recent versions of Windows that I am sick of it. I happen to like how IE renders and how fast it is. But that's not my point.
If someone likes Netscape better, why don't they replace the render engine in windows with a Gecko renderer. Microsoft already publishes everything that is needed to do this. Just look at there MSDN articles on using the HTML interface and wrap the gecko engine to emulate it. Then replace the mshtml.dll and walla, windows without IE.
This sound's like a essay I read that related to Tesla coils but went further than that. What was described was a system where two antennas would be coupled together and the power levels could be adjusted on the remote antenna just as quickly as on the sending one. The idea was that the information (power level) would be sent faster than the wavelength or even the speed of light. I saw this at: http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html Nathan Brown
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File copying really does occur at the application level. Sure, there may be API's for this, but they are little more than a simple loop reading and writing the data too and from the source.
Take a look at file explorer. It has had a progress bar for a long time, but that can't be done with the standard API's (now with IE 4/5 it can be).
As for the throttling, I suppose that has it's uses. But that too is not too difficult, just a bit of Sleep()ing. (or a timer)
have fun.
nathan
I have heard so many complaints about how IE is inseparable from the recent versions of Windows that I am sick of it. I happen to like how IE renders and how fast it is. But that's not my point.
If someone likes Netscape better, why don't they replace the render engine in windows with a Gecko renderer. Microsoft already publishes everything that is needed to do this. Just look at there MSDN articles on using the HTML interface and wrap the gecko engine to emulate it. Then replace the mshtml.dll and walla, windows without IE.
But that's not the real concern is it?
This sound's like a essay I read that related to Tesla coils but went further than that. What was described was a system where two antennas would be coupled together and the power levels could be adjusted on the remote antenna just as quickly as on the sending one. The idea was that the information (power level) would be sent faster than the wavelength or even the speed of light. I saw this at: http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html Nathan Brown