On 1/18/2009 6:33 AM, Sqwertz wrote: > stan <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
