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Re: LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

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Post by nkrisc »

arnorhs wrote: post #28

Agree with some of the other commentors that I don't associate "loader" with progress indicators / spinners. The preferred term for these in my book is "loading indicator" A lot of these terms are overloaded already. Android made it esp. bad by using "spinner" for a dropdown box, and then they used progress indicator for things that normally you'd use "spinner" for. Ultimately a "spinner" isn't really a good term sin…

GUI components called spinners were called so because they originally resembled physical controls which had options printed on a barrel, which was then mounted below the dashboard surface with a slot to reveal the current selection, and had a ridged wheel exposed so you could spin it. Most GUIs now show you all options at once because they can and it’s better.

Re: LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

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Post by duxup »

YoshiRulz wrote: post #35

The only good spinner (and don't forget to include something for screen readers[1]): Works in every browser, and out-of-the-box is visually consistent with the rest of the system. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pr...

Except it looks like a progress bar that isn't actually indicating progress ... that seems off to me.

Re: LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

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Post by eddd-ddde »

YoshiRulz wrote: post #35

The only good spinner (and don't forget to include something for screen readers[1]): Works in every browser, and out-of-the-box is visually consistent with the rest of the system. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pr...

What about aria-busy? I love how picocss approaches spinners.

Re: LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

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Post by eddd-ddde »

Lately my internet connection has been ridiculously bad. It made me realise how often UX is ignored for bad connections.

One of the things I notice with SPAs is that since the browser navigation does not occur normally, I get no indication from my browser that a link is loading, so the app is completely responsible of adding their own navigation indicators (which is uncommon to see in the wild).

Also sort of unrelated, I constantly see search forms that are "real time" but do not even abort previous requests, so to me it appears as no feed back, then once I finish typing I get a new set of results every second or so until it completes, making it extremely frustrating.

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