Re: What is a throbber?

[»Q«]

In ,
Philip Chee  wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:56:02 -0600, »Q« wrote:
> > In ,
> > John Doue  wrote:
> > 
> > [about the throbber]
> >> As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.
> > 
> > That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.  Actual
> > Sea-Monkeys look like this:
> > 
> > 
> 
> But you must admit that the SeaMonkey logo is a very avian looking
> shrimp.

True, and from a certain angle, brine shrimp do look pretty avian;  the
top shrimp in that wikiepedia jpg, for example.

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Re: What is a throbber?

[Philip Chee]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:56:02 -0600, »Q« wrote:
> In ,
> John Doue  wrote:
> 
> [about the throbber]
>> As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.
> 
> That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.  Actual
> Sea-Monkeys look like this:
> 
> 

But you must admit that the SeaMonkey logo is a very avian looking shrimp.

Phil

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Re: What is a throbber?

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JeffM  wrote:

> *sea monkey* is another name for Brine Shrimp.
> I think the sea monkey term was made up by marketers
> who put ads in the back of comic books
> so they could swindle 8 year olds out of their allowances.

I spent some of my hard earned paycheck on those just last month.
And I'm 41 years old.

I keep them in my office at work.  Something to watch and pass the
time when I'm not busy posting nonsense on Usenet.

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Re: What is a throbber?

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
 wrote:

> SeaMonkey was the developers term when they were 
> programming Netscape

The developers had come up with the code name "Buttmonkey", and
Netscape management changed it to "Seamonkey".  Thankfully, the
SeaMonkey Council did not revert to the older term when naming the
SeaMonkey suite.

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Re: What is a throbber?

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In
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JeffM  wrote:

> >John Doue wrote:  
> >>[about the throbber]
> >>As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.
> >>  
> »Q« wrote:
> >That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.
> >Actual Sea-Monkeys look like this:  
> >  
> 
> ...and, as is indicated on that page,
> *sea monkey* is another name for Brine Shrimp.
> I think the sea monkey term was made up by marketers
> who put ads in the back of comic books
> so they could swindle 8 year olds out of their allowances.

Yes, the marketing name is "Sea-Monkeys".  They got me at about that
age, and KaiRo more recently.  ;)

Old ad: 

Current site: 

KaiRo's:



I've set the followups to mozilla.general.

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Re: What is a throbber?

[Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo]

JeffM wrote:

John Doue wrote:

[about the throbber]
As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.


»Q« wrote:

That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.
Actual Sea-Monkeys look like this:



...and, as is indicated on that page,
*sea monkey* is another name for Brine Shrimp.
I think the sea monkey term was made up by marketers
who put ads in the back of comic books
so they could swindle 8 year olds out of their allowances.


SeaMonkey was the developers term when they were 
programming Netscape


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Re: What is a throbber?

[JeffM]

>John Doue wrote:
>>[about the throbber]
>>As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.
>>
»Q« wrote:
>That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.
>Actual Sea-Monkeys look like this:
>

...and, as is indicated on that page,
*sea monkey* is another name for Brine Shrimp.
I think the sea monkey term was made up by marketers
who put ads in the back of comic books
so they could swindle 8 year olds out of their allowances.
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Re: What is a throbber?

[JeffM]

Gus Richter wrote:
>>Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?
>>
>stan wrote:
><http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=throbber>
>
An even more tightly-focused search for technical terms:
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:throbber

>>What is the advantage of having it?
>>
None if you already have the Windoze cursor turning into an hourglass.
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Re: What is a throbber?

[Ray_Net]

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:

John Doue wrote:

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:

John Doue wrote:

Ray_Net wrote:

John Doue wrote:


Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation 
tool-bar and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. 



I did not see any large "M" on my SM brower 


As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes. On the 
theme I use (Pinball), it is the M of Mozilla (at least, I would 
guess). An heritage SM can be proud of.


for me, I had to change mine. I have the blue bird, and when its 
active, I have a book turning pages.  I couldn't stand seeing the 
bubbles. Some times, it was hard to see if there was activity or not.


Can you post the details of how you did that? Does it survive 
upgrading to a newer version or do you have to update it as well?


sh, its a secret ;-)


If you pass me your bank account number ...perhaps we can have a deal ? :-)
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Re: What is a throbber?

[Gus Richter]

stan wrote:
Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is the 
advantage of having it?


Stan



<http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=throbber>

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Re: What is a throbber?

[Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo]

John Doue wrote:

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:

John Doue wrote:

Ray_Net wrote:

John Doue wrote:


Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation 
tool-bar and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. 



I did not see any large "M" on my SM brower 


As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes. On the 
theme I use (Pinball), it is the M of Mozilla (at least, I would 
guess). An heritage SM can be proud of.


for me, I had to change mine. I have the blue bird, and when its 
active, I have a book turning pages.  I couldn't stand seeing the 
bubbles. Some times, it was hard to see if there was activity or not.


Can you post the details of how you did that? Does it survive upgrading 
to a newer version or do you have to update it as well?


sh, its a secret ;-)

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Re: What is a throbber?

[John Doue]

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:

John Doue wrote:

Ray_Net wrote:

John Doue wrote:


Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation 
tool-bar and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. 



I did not see any large "M" on my SM brower 


As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes. On the 
theme I use (Pinball), it is the M of Mozilla (at least, I would 
guess). An heritage SM can be proud of.


for me, I had to change mine. I have the blue bird, and when its active, 
I have a book turning pages.  I couldn't stand seeing the bubbles. Some 
times, it was hard to see if there was activity or not.


Can you post the details of how you did that? Does it survive upgrading 
to a newer version or do you have to update it as well?


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Re: What is a throbber?

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In ,
John Doue  wrote:

[about the throbber]
> As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.

That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.  Actual
Sea-Monkeys look like this:



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Re: What is a throbber?

[Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo]

John Doue wrote:

Ray_Net wrote:

John Doue wrote:


Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation 
tool-bar and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. 



I did not see any large "M" on my SM brower 


As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes. On the 
theme I use (Pinball), it is the M of Mozilla (at least, I would guess). 
An heritage SM can be proud of.


for me, I had to change mine. I have the blue bird, and 
when its active, I have a book turning pages.  I 
couldn't stand seeing the bubbles. Some times, it was 
hard to see if there was activity or not.


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Re: What is a throbber?

[John Doue]

Ray_Net wrote:

John Doue wrote:

stan wrote:
Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is 
the advantage of having it?


Stan
Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation 
tool-bar and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. 
On some versions of Mozilla products, it sort of moves around, hence 
the name throbber ... Don't want to be more "explicit" :-)



I did not see any large "M" on my SM brower 


As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes. On the 
theme I use (Pinball), it is the M of Mozilla (at least, I would guess). 
An heritage SM can be proud of.

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Re: What is a throbber?

[Robert Kaiser]

John Doue wrote:

stan wrote:

Another post talks about the throbber. What is a throbber? What is the
advantage of having it?

Stan

Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation tool-bar
and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. On some
versions of Mozilla products, it sort of moves around, hence the name
throbber ... Don't want to be more "explicit" :-)


1) It's no "M" in any SeaMonkey default theme, and
2) any click-functionality isn't really what it's there for but only 
something added for convenience and stronger branding. Its core 
functionality is to animate while some loading is in progress and to be 
an additional indicator of "we are doing something" (also indicated by 
the progress bar at the bottom of the screen).


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Re: What is a throbber?

[Ray_Net]

John Doue wrote:

stan wrote:
Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is 
the advantage of having it?


Stan
Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation tool-bar 
and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. On some 
versions of Mozilla products, it sort of moves around, hence the name 
throbber ... Don't want to be more "explicit" :-)



I did not see any large "M" on my SM brower 
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Re: What is a throbber?

[John Doue]

stan wrote:
Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is the 
advantage of having it?


Stan
Double-click on the large M at very right end of the navigation tool-bar 
and you will have discovered what a throbber is .. and does. On some 
versions of Mozilla products, it sort of moves around, hence the name 
throbber ... Don't want to be more "explicit" :-)


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Re: What is a throbber?

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On 1/18/2009 6:33 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> stan  wrote:
> 
>> Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is the 
>> advantage of having it?
> 
> It's the Seamonkey logo to the right of the address bar that
> "throbs" when it's retrieving a website.
> 
> Different themes may turn this into something other than the default
> Seamonkey logo.
> 
> -sw

It gives the user an indication that the application is not yet really
done with whatever it was asked to do.  For example, a Web server might
have delayed sending the final packets of an image.  The Web page might
look complete.  But if the throbber is still showing some animation, the
the page is not really complete.

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Mozilla-related applications.  You can access Mozdev much
more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons.
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Re: What is a throbber?

[Sqwertz]

stan  wrote:

> Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is the 
> advantage of having it?

It's the Seamonkey logo to the right of the address bar that
"throbs" when it's retrieving a website.

Different themes may turn this into something other than the default
Seamonkey logo.

-sw
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What is a throbber?

[stan]

Another post talks about the throbber.  What is a throbber?  What is the 
advantage of having it?


Stan
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I'm using the SWEET SUITE, SeaMonkey.

Try it at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

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