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The pages used to display an active load-bar to reassure the user that something was happening. One expected slowness back then, especially on dial-up, and you
by Zuider 12y ago
The pages used to display an active load-bar to reassure the user that something was happening. One expected slowness back then, especially on dial-up, and you could always hit [esc] once enough of the page loaded.
There was a time, especially on older, slower Windows, that people would stab and swipe feverishly at the icon on the screen, resulting in multiple instances of the app when it finally emerged from the Stygian depths of the HD, and many copies of the icon on the desktop, since swiping served to copy the icon.
- pixl97 12y agoA load bar also made sense back then because pages actually loaded and then were complete. These days with async calls a page doesn't ever have to be finished, it can keep refreshing parts of its content, or be one of those never ending pages you run in to at times. Now you can never really be sure what a page is up to without looking at the code.
- saeguaiga 12y agoNow it's canny enough to both cheer good initiative and keep VM dashcam minders for the late crosser crowd. Or is that while fox-walking, cheering the people who brake through the widest kerb-permissible turns to shine through their double hip replacements, and nudging lattes back onto roofs (which browser analogies seem more thin.) Mindfulness, my RasPi's HMC bus!