* Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> [2008-03-26 09:36:32]: > On Mar 25 2008, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >Anyone got any better ideas? > > Sorry if this would be impossible, I don't know anything about fproxy's > internals, but when a key is requested, would it be possible to display a > "please wait" page with a "cancel" button and/or a link to the main fproxy > page, then redirect to the content once it's been fetched?
Sure it's possible... but not a realistic option. If the browser happens to have reached its maximum amount of connections, I bet it won't obey the "refresh" header we would set on the page we display, effectively "breaking" the browsing. > It seems to me > that people are opening lots of tabs, nothing is loading so they suspect > Freenet has crashed, they try to open the stats page and when that fails it > confirms their suspicion. So rather than changing Firefox, maybe we just > need to give the user some feedback that Freenet is fetching the content > and it hasn't crashed? I don't think it's why people open loads of tabs... Freenet's latency sucks hence "parallelizing" makes sense -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080327/3019ba52/attachment.pgp>
