[thelist] Page load progress indicator

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Wed May 4 09:55:04 CDT 2005


d event handler then turned the whole thing off.
> > >
> > > It proved very effective. Although it did not give an accurate idea of how
> > > much longer the user would have to wait, it handled user expectations very
> > > well as it gave a visual indication to the user that the page was loading
> > > and illustrated the rate at which this was occurring.
> >
> > What happened to users without JavaScript?
> 
> Who cares?
> 
> It's eye candy and isn't necessary for the function of the page.

But it could be very confusing if there is a dead progress bar
somewhere on the page.
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.
Eyecandy is fine, but make sure it is not in the way when it fails to
do what it is meant to.


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