On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:48:55PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > We cannot just use a progress bar.
Oh? What was wrong with Simon's proposal? I see no reason that we couldn't do that. > We cannot make it entirely transparent. No, but we can do our best. > What do you prefer? Obviously we can lose the bottom two > frames, but the top and middle frame (which could be a single document) > need to stay unless we change the concept radically. Well, We can definitely keep this concept for a "Show details..." type dialog, but by default I think we should do something similar to Simon's suggestion. > Any sort of graphical representation is likely to piss off users of not > only lynx but even "links". Not really, it is possible to make most graphical representations look ok in text if you are smart about it - but I don't think you can ever do that with frames. > The newbie must see something. A progress bar that stalls for an hour > while downloading the first 128MB is completely unacceptable. EVEN if it > is backed by a fuller interface _if you know where it is and dig for > it_. Lusers don't read if they can avoid it and they have relatively > little curiosity - we can't expect them to know that there is a full > status monitor buried on the web interface somewhere. I don't disagree, I think Simon's proposal addresses this concern. > > Another idea, which on thinking about it, might be more attractive to > > you guys, is to pop open a borderless window which conveys this > > information, but tries to look at-least something like a normal download > > window that the user will be familiar with (similar size etc). > Um, you were complaining about javascript hacks before. Can you open a > borderless window without using javascript? I ment a browser window with no tool-bar, not completely borderless. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021219/6c4cfd07/attachment.pgp>
