[thelist] Page load progress indicator

[Kasimir K]

Joe Ngo scribeva in 2005-05-04 14:50:
> Perhaps a more interesting question is, what happens when a network
> problem occurs, and the user sees the progress bar grow beyond 100%,
> 200%, 300%, ...

So instead of a "progress indicator" one should use "loading indicator" 
- something like a clock with hands moving etc. This makes sense, as the 
actual progress of the download is very difficult to measure.



Christian Heilmann scribeva in 2005-05-04 14:55:
 >>>What happened to users without JavaScript?
 > Back in the Communicator days a lot of DHTML web sites used a div
 > around the whole document with display:none and an onload script
 > turning that to display:block and a "loading" message to none.
 > Non-JavaScript users only saw a "loading" and never got to the page.

This won't be a problem if the loading indicator itself is created with 
javascript (e.g. a div covering the rest of the page, with text "loading").

.k