On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:35:53AM -0500, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 12:54 pm, Doug Bostrom wrote:
> > The splitfile interface provides a useful measure of progress or at least
> > continued activity. How about something to give users a little feedback
> > while other key types are being retrieved?
> >
> > Browsers generally provide some kind of indication of progress, but some
> > just lie (IE)  and if there's no progress in bytes retrieved, many users
> > new to Freenet will likely assume nothing is happening and either try
> > another key or give up even though productive activity is happening behind
> > the scenes.
> >
> 
> Why not feed the site through the filter dynamically and once some is 
> filtered, send it out to the browser?
> Before there's anything even to filter, it could say, like, "mapfile 
> retrieved", "DBR root retrieved", although this would tend to confuse 
> newbies. Maybe we need to ship some good documentation available directly 
> from FProxy.

Last I heard Ian was opposed to putting documentation on fproxy.
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