I am completely agree with this post. A showWhile: pattern takes its roots from modal processing, when user is blocked and have to wait till something will give control back to him. This is inacceptable and should be exterminated. It was excusable for 80's , partly excusable in 90's .. and completely inexcusable past 0's.
A progress bar is another abomination of same kind. Look at download bars in your internet browser: do they center it in a window on top of everything and preventing you from doing anything? or maybe they just sit in the corner and not interfere? This is a road where we should put our steps on. We should remember once and for eternity: staying responsible to user input is most important task for a system. The rest doesn't matters. On 31 May 2012 21:22, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/travis/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Cursor_consider_showWhile:_%5BHarmful%5D&entry=3432339015 -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
