JavaScript loading progress of an image

Question

Is there a way in JS to get the progress of a loading image while the image is being loaded? I want to use the new Progress tag of HTML5 to show the progress of loading imag

Answer 1

for xmlhttpreq v2 check, use:

var xmlHTTP = new XMLHttpRequest();
if ('onprogress' in xmlHTTP) {
 // supported 
} else {
 // isn't supported
}