According to Toad, > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:17:51PM -0400, Nick Tarleton wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2003 04:51 pm, David Bauer wrote: > > > >>Hint: Create an intermediary page that loads instantly when you click on > > > >>a link, which shows 'progress bars' with interesting information on what > > > >>freenet is doing while trying to get your information. Then when it's > > > >>done, load the destination page. > > > > > > > >About the first post-win95 update to MSIE had a progress bar which, when > > > >the "go" button was pressed, started to move up to just below halfway at a > > > >slow but visible rate even if DNS lookup had failed and no page was ever > > > >going to load. When I complained, I was told by Microsoft that this was > > > >reassuring for users, at least it showed something was happening, and that > > > >MSIE hadn't crashed. On mature reflection, I am on Microsoft and > > > >Burgerking's side here, some indication that Freenet is trying to do > > > >something hard, even if only loosely based on what is really happening, > > > >would be a good thing. > > > > > > I must disagree. I really hated that feature, because it made it look like > > > the page was loading (I believe it went up to 39% done) when it wasn't even > > > available. And if it is going to be handled the same way as the split-file > > > downloads (with an automatic reload), how fast is the reload going to > > > be? I think opening an intermediate page will be far more annoying than it > > > is worth, without even getting into issues with framed pages (or embedded > > > iframes for pre-loading). > > Then make it configurable. Newbies would like it, advanced users wouldn't. > > Some advanced users, however, WOULD like intermediate pages showing what has > > been retrieved so far: > > Root DBR > > Daily DBR, redirects to [EMAIL PROTECTED],mapfile > > Mapfile, requesting / = [EMAIL PROTECTED],index > > And such. Or at least, it'd be nice on DNF to display how far it got. > > Yes, that would be cool (for HTML pages). And it should be optional. And > what priority should it be given?
What would be really cute (imho) would be to have a little arrow pointing away (with perspective, I guess) when the request goes out, and then a little arrow pointing in when the item is coming in, and then a little animated painting while the item is being rendered. They could stack up and when all three are in place, you know it's done. And each can have a scroll bar. That way you have a cute animation throughout so the user doesn't get bored, and the animation educates as to what the process is, and it's not innacurate so the experts don't get annoyed. Yeah, that would be really cute. But is it worth the time and effort? And would it be compatible with all the browsers and OSs? _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
