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How can I show one full screen of content when it takes longer than 64ms for the content to get from there to here? An acknowledgment that the content is coming
by tedunangst 7y ago
How can I show one full screen of content when it takes longer than 64ms for the content to get from there to here? An acknowledgment that the content is coming is not a screenful of content.
- jlg23 7y ago64 ms East Coast to West Coast leaves about 20ms for content generation. That's plenty...
- dahart 7y agoInstead of assuming that "content" must mean "network response", imagine some other possibilities. A full-screen gray-out box with a centered loading spinner over a YouTube thumbnail, along with the thin loading progress meter on the video's timeline is an example of a "screenful of content" that doesn't equate to the network response.
- tedunangst 7y agoThat a loading spinner would count as content is a sad commentary on how little value YouTube video content must have. :(
- dahart 7y agoIt seems like you're still having a hard time imagining what "content" might mean aside from the network response. In the context of a UI element or screen layout, "content" is the appearance of the UI elements on screen. The post, and my comment, isn't referring to web content or video content, it's referring to UI content. Twisting my words to comment on YouTube's quality is funny, but irrelevant to interaction latency.