On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 15:01 +0100, Jussi Kukkonen wrote: > Patrick Ohly wrote: > > In particular the varying response times are the reason why I think > > that the spinner should only spin while waiting for the server. It's > > the indicator that all bets about deterministic completion times are > > off, as in a web browser with a loaded server. > > Does it really make sense that a spinner stops when we are processing > data? I would imagine web browsers show the spinner when rendering the > page takes a long time (but I don't actually know this).
No, they don't. I have a page which requires quite a bit of JavaScript processing before displaying anything (a TiddlyWiki), and the spinner stops several seconds before anything is drawn. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.syncevolution.org/listinfo/syncevolution
