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This is totally silly of course, but to me IE 3 and 4 always “felt” faster compared to Netscape because of the speed of their animation. I always wondered if M

This is totally silly of course, but to me IE 3 and 4 always “felt” faster compared to Netscape because of the speed of their animation. I always wondered if MS intentionally made it faster due to perception.

agumonkey 3y ago
I'd love to investigate that. Timing UI changes with or without laggy/janky spinners or loaders and compare user perception. Having a sense of fluidity makes it like the machine is well programmed and organized, while a slow gif animation will feel like something is wrong.
Synaesthesia 3y ago
The earlier versions of IE were really fast and feature packed. They also were quite small executables.
mysterydip 3y ago
Not silly, human psychology I think. I remember reading a thing a while back where appearance of response feels faster even when slower. You can try this yourself in your favorite language by having an app with three buttons: - first button waits 9 seconds and then displays "done" - second button updates a progress bar once a second for 10 seconds then displays "done" - third button updates the progress bar once every 100ms for 10 seconds then displays "done" See which one feels fastest
- rvnx 3y ago
  What is the answer ?
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  - mysterydip 3y ago
    Generally, the one with the most responsive progress bar will feel faster, because you're seeing progress more often.
projektfu 3y ago
IE 4 was impressively fast compared to Netscape, and also included the little tick-bump navigation sounds, which I liked at first but they've now been mercifully put down.
marban 3y ago
First version of IE3 didn't even support file uploads without an add-on, but IE4 on OS9 was great.
whywhywhywhy 3y ago
It definitely makes a difference, the Facebook team replaced their iOS app startup loader from the facebook style row of lines ||||| to the standard iOS spinner because users perceived Facebook being slow with its loader and perceived iPhone being slow with the iOS spinner
pram 3y ago
You mean the icon with the clouds moving behind the Windows logo? It had an absurd speed on my laptop, like the clouds moving at warp speed. Can't remember if it was IE 3, but it never looked right to me lol EDIT: It was IE 2
jerrydb 3y ago
i was told its because IE is pinned in RAM at boot.

agumonkey 3y ago

I'd love to investigate that. Timing UI changes with or without laggy/janky spinners or loaders and compare user perception. Having a sense of fluidity makes it like the machine is well programmed and organized, while a slow gif animation will feel like something is wrong.

Synaesthesia 3y ago

The earlier versions of IE were really fast and feature packed. They also were quite small executables.

mysterydip 3y ago

Not silly, human psychology I think. I remember reading a thing a while back where appearance of response feels faster even when slower. You can try this yourself in your favorite language by having an app with three buttons: - first button waits 9 seconds and then displays "done" - second button updates a progress bar once a second for 10 seconds then displays "done" - third button updates the progress bar once every 100ms for 10 seconds then displays "done" See which one feels fastest

rvnx 3y ago
What is the answer ?
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- mysterydip 3y ago
  Generally, the one with the most responsive progress bar will feel faster, because you're seeing progress more often.

projektfu 3y ago

IE 4 was impressively fast compared to Netscape, and also included the little tick-bump navigation sounds, which I liked at first but they've now been mercifully put down.

marban 3y ago

First version of IE3 didn't even support file uploads without an add-on, but IE4 on OS9 was great.

whywhywhywhy 3y ago

It definitely makes a difference, the Facebook team replaced their iOS app startup loader from the facebook style row of lines ||||| to the standard iOS spinner because users perceived Facebook being slow with its loader and perceived iPhone being slow with the iOS spinner

pram 3y ago

You mean the icon with the clouds moving behind the Windows logo? It had an absurd speed on my laptop, like the clouds moving at warp speed. Can't remember if it was IE 3, but it never looked right to me lol EDIT: It was IE 2

jerrydb 3y ago

i was told its because IE is pinned in RAM at boot.