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> What do you propose instead? Just a spinner? No indication that something is happening at all (browser default)? Sure, that works. If that's too slow, it sho
by dale_glass 3y ago
> What do you propose instead? Just a spinner? No indication that something is happening at all (browser default)?
Sure, that works. If that's too slow, it should be made faster.
I mean, maybe that sounds odd, but even on say, a 10 Mbps connection you can load stuff at 1 MB/s, which means you can load 100K in 100 ms. That's plenty, considering in modern times we don't reload the whole page, so stuff can be preloaded and cached.
- bibanez 3y agoI would've guessed that it's normal to have bad connection often when on mobile. At home I have a stable and high bandwith connection, but on my phone when commuting I regularly loose connection for seconds or minutes at a time. Designign apps should take this into account (that you can't completely optimize out of a bad connection)
- dale_glass 3y agoOh, sure. I get having it as a fallback for the rare cases. But there's stuff that performs horribly in optimal conditions. Eg, my airline has this "Login" link on the front page. If I click that, it pops up a little box, then for some bizarre reason has a "Loading..." inside that shows up for 2 seconds, then finally shows a field for username and password. This is on a 16 core CPU with a 1 Gbps fiber connection. Like what is there even to load? It's just 2 text fields and a couple buttons! If it's some tracking BS, well, that could be done asynchronously in the background. I get that there still exist slow computers and bad connections, but in 99.9% of cases, there's no reason to have a visible load time on anything even relatively modern. We've long had the bandwidth to load more than anyone would care to read in 10ms, and the CPU horsepower to deal with it.