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Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile does this too. If your connection drops out, the progress bar continues to move towards 90%, then gets stuck there forever.

• ygra 13y ago
  That being said, giving a good estimation of page load time is downright impossible. You don't know in advance how many resources you need to load, you don't know in advance how large they'll be, or how long the DNS reply will take ... If you don't want the scrollbar to move backwards, you can just give a rough approximation of progress, if any. And if you just wait until you certainly know how long it's going to be you're probably almost finished anyway. I guess there's a reason web browsers nowadays just use a little spinner that says »I'm doing ... uhm ... something!« instead of them pretending »I'm 46.5 % done«.
  • oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
    You can't do this very accurately, sure, but you can add some meaning - e.g. report back when each of a number of known steps is completed. That gives a vague idea of whether we're talking seconds or minutes. I might be able to do something else once I know a specific step is complete.