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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 ddunkin »

Vendek wrote: post #29

I think the concept itself is ridiculous. It's 2013 guys, UI response should be instant. If it's not, you need to rethink what you're doing and ponder your life in general.

But it is not instant. This is used when you are making an external HTTP request over the Internet, to a server that may or may not respond instantly (if at all), over a link that may be saturated at any point in time.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by Vendek »

ddunkin wrote: post #31
Vendek wrote: post #29

I think the concept itself is ridiculous. It's 2013 guys, UI response should be instant. If it's not, you need to rethink what you're doing and ponder your life in general.

But it is not instant. This is used when you are making an external HTTP request over the Internet, to a server that may or may not respond instantly (if at all), over a link that may be saturated at any point in time.

Good, you started rethinking it by describing the problem. It's a start.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

#35

Post by Justsignedup »

Lifebot wrote: post #24

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?

compu-what-tion? You mean accurately predict how long it'll take an ajax request to load? Pfft, an exercise in futility, easier to just fake it, and probably just as accurate :)

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

#36

Post by borlak »

benburleson wrote: post #7

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

What do you mean? The SWF progress bars are one of the few that can actually be relied upon. A good example: http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush

The Microsoft installation progress bars are the ones I remember as being ridiculous. Often going backwards, showing ridiculous install times, etc.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by mmcclure »

infinita740 wrote: post #23
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

What have you done...now I'm going to play Winterbells for the rest of the afternoon.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

#39

Post by ianhawes »

infinita740 wrote: post #23
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

Anddddd there goes my day. Winterbells.

Re: NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

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Post by rstacruz »

marbletiles wrote: post #38

This gives the pointer a blue beachball on Mac Safari. Is that intended? Have never been sure what the blue beachball's supposed to be.

Hi, I'm the author of NProgress. Yes! It's intentional.

You can disable this by removing the `cursor: wait` rule in the CSS file.

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