On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Theodore Hong wrote: > Tavin Cole <tcole at espnow.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:52:19PM +0100, Theodore Hong wrote: > > > New features - I think the biggest thing it needs right now is some sort > > > of > > > progress indication to tell you just what the heck is going on back there. > > > It's not really acceptable to have to look at the logs to figure this out. > > > > Certainly, after a request fails, a screen should be displayed showing > > the event log. > > no, I mean feedback during requests, e.g. some kind of timer counting down > and getting bumped up when QueryRestarted's come back. Maybe somehow > seeing whether the node is just waiting for a reply to come back or whether > it hit some bug and crashed.
I think this is extremely important. Nothing is less userfriendly then a long unexplained wait. The proxy should keep people informed at what is going on, especially if you get a QueryRestarted. If you set Content-type: text/html browsers will start displaying before the page has finished loading, so you can just do the counter as a series of characters slowly written to the message body, then at the end you put a link to a page with the actual data. -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
