>> I have some big calls that
>> reload almost all the page (like Facebook, to say)

I had to log in to facebook for the first time in forever to see what your'e 
talking about.

Facebook either has a little indicator next to the link you clicked (which is 
completely sufficient user feedback), or, in the case of moving to a user's 
profile, it reloads the whole page.

But facebook doesn't try to act like it's reloading the whole page when it's 
not.


On Jul 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, bootle wrote:

> 
> How about just setting the document.body's css cursor property to
> the progress icon and then set it back when you're done?
> 
> I'm doing it now + setting the page's <title> to "Loading...", that
> doesn't give the exact feel I want to achieve though
> 
> I'm with Ryan here, I don't know what you're after. Can you point us
> to a
> site that behaves the way you want? I also agree: if you're loading an
> entirely new document via Ajax, you're doing it wrong. Just load a new
> document like normal.
> 
> For example Gmail and Facebook do it this way (Facebook only for the
> main page loads though). Notice that when you load a 'new page' in
> either of these the site never actually reloads, header and the chat
> area stay intact, only the content is loaded - despite that, browser
> displays all the loading whistles as with a classic page load - hope
> I'm explaining it well enough
> 
> I have just one call that I want to handle this way, as I wrote to
> Ryan, I think iframe might actually be a thing to experiment with.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> On Jul 9, 4:37 pm, Aaron Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Trevor Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> If I understand correctly you have multiple requests firing that replace
>>> most of the content on the page?  Then I would guess you would to create and
>>> display a spinner and then have some way to figure out when the last request
>>> has completed and remove the spinner.
>> 
>> The Group class lets you do that.
>> 
>> How about just setting the document.body's css cursor property to
>> the progress icon and then set it back when you're done?
>> 
>> I'm with Ryan here, I don't know what you're after. Can you point us to a
>> site that behaves the way you want? I also agree: if you're loading an
>> entirely new document via Ajax, you're doing it wrong. Just load a new
>> document like normal.

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