Re: What is a throbber?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:56:02 -0600, »Q« wrote: In news:bysdnrcnsja77u7unz2dnuvz_uwdn...@mozilla.org, John Doue notw...@yahoo.com 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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemia_salina.jpg But you must admit that the SeaMonkey logo is a very avian looking shrimp. Phil -- Philip Chee phi...@aleytys.pc.my, philip.c...@gmail.com http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Smile... people will wonder what you've been up to. * TagZilla 0.066.6 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
In news:la-dnst9husx9-nunz2dnuvz_j2dn...@mozilla.org, Philip Chee philip.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:56:02 -0600, »Q« wrote: In news:bysdnrcnsja77u7unz2dnuvz_uwdn...@mozilla.org, John Doue notw...@yahoo.com 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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemia_salina.jpg 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. -- »Q« /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mailX http://asciiribbon.org/ / \ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
What is a throbber?
Another post talks about the throbber. What is a throbber? What is the advantage of having it? Stan -- I'm using the SWEET SUITE, SeaMonkey. Try it at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
stan spie...@hvc.rr.com 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 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
On 1/18/2009 6:33 AM, Sqwertz wrote: stan spie...@hvc.rr.com 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. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Go to Mozdev at http://www.mozdev.org/ for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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 :-) -- John Doue ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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). Robert Kaiser ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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. -- John Doue ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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. -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world, except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned. Peter Potamus His Magic Flying Balloon: http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3 http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
In news:bysdnrcnsja77u7unz2dnuvz_uwdn...@mozilla.org, John Doue notw...@yahoo.com 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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemia_salina.jpg -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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? -- John Doue ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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 ;-) -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world, except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned. Peter Potamus His Magic Flying Balloon: http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3 http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemia_salina.jpg ...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 -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world, except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned. Peter Potamus His Magic Flying Balloon: http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3 http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
In news:096a263d-5bf4-441b-9eb3-28cde4b13...@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com, JeffM jef...@email.com 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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemia_salina.jpg ...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: http://therawfeed.com/pix/seamonkeys-lg.jpg Current site: http://www.sea-monkeys.com/ KaiRo's: http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-09/sea_monkeys_living_in_a_seamonkey_team_m http://home.kairo.at/blog/2008-03/6_month_old_sea_monkeys I've set the followups to mozilla.general. -- »Q« /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mailX http://asciiribbon.org/ / \ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
In news:poednveolkbup-7unz2dnuvz_h4aa...@mozilla.org, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo peter.potamus.the.purple.hi...@gmail.com 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. -- »Q« /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mailX http://asciiribbon.org/ / \ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: What is a throbber?
JeffM jef...@email.com 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. -sw ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
