David Carson wrote:
the main issue that it tries to address is that on really really slow
networks, the user goes to a site and takes a long time to load, and
they think the browser has stopped working or is not doing anything and
give up and cancel the load.
By showing some content, some progress, the user can see that there is
activity and will continue to wait for the page to load.
Again, this is for slow network connections (ie low bandwidth)
I used this on a real mobile device with a slow connection for a couple
of weeks to get a feel for it.
As a browser developer, the feature at first seemed neat. But as an end
user I found that the appearance of styling up to ~10/20 seconds later
was annoying, since by that point I'd already started reading the
unstyled content and was getting the information I needed. The
subsequent CSS load often meant I had to find the newly-styled paragraph
and start reading it all over again.
Maybe it's subjective, and maybe there's a technical solution to make
the transition from unstyled to styled content less distracting. I've
pinged some other mobile browser developers to get their thoughts on this.
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