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NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by Bluestrike2 »

vvpan wrote: post #15

I hope progress bars will not be an excuse to build bad slow-loading websites. I think if you are not GMail you should stay away.

Those that are predisposed to build slow sites despite all the evidence about how detrimental it is don't really need any excuses for some reason.

In all seriousness, given that there are a lot of use cases where an app might be fetching external resources without clearly informing the user as to (i) what's going on and (ii) the current progress, I'd wager the benefits of providing some sort of indication would be measurable even if it's rather fast. I don't really see the presence of an indicator, in any case, enabling an app to get away with slow/slower results.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by NoodleIncident »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #2

This looks really nice. I think I've saw one of the browsers using that space at the top for it's loading bar which looks very similar (I'm not positive on this - it could have been a mobile browser). Edit: Readme says it was inspired by Medium and YouTube - http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-websi...

Dolphin browser for android does it too.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by infinita740 »

benburleson wrote: post #7

Am I the only one that remembers SWF load-progress indicators and how retarded they were?

This guy make fun of it in his flash games (progress bars go forward then backward) http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Brings lots of memories, I used to make flash games in school when I was 15. I always liked those little games. /nostalgia

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by Lifebot »

Question for people using these progress bars: Are you actually doing the computation to accurately estimate the time it takes to complete the action indicated by the progress bar, or are you simply showing a progress bar as a visual cue to any loading in the same way people have been using spinning AJAX loaders?

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by bhauer »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #2

This looks really nice. I think I've saw one of the browsers using that space at the top for it's loading bar which looks very similar (I'm not positive on this - it could have been a mobile browser). Edit: Readme says it was inspired by Medium and YouTube - http://www.usabilitypost.com/2013/08/19/new-ui-pattern-websi...

Firefox 3.6 with the theme named Strata and the plugin named Fission had progress bars that looked almost identical to this, including the glow effect.

It gave me a feeling of nostalgia seeing this.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by jrolfs »

level09 wrote: post #20

This looks similar to the one on Youtube, I was wondering though, why is youtube progress bar only compatible with Chrome ? does it rely on a new HTML5 feature that doesn't exist in firefox ?

I've looked into this a bit. I don't think it's just Chrome but rather YouTube has some sort of beta flag for enabling the pjax style page loads. Try Incognito in Chrome and see if you still get the bar.
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