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PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Why is this any different than Flash preloaders just a moment ago? And even worse - it doesn't show any progress so there isn't any user feedback. Every (bad) pattern seems to repeat itself. Just using current-cool-tech. I would much more appreciate that dev time would be put into a framework that allows graceful enchancement by deferring loading more heavy components and to allow user to interact with the site ASAP.…

Yeah, because I really want people to interact with my game before everything is fully loaded. Great idea.

Rightfully getting downvoted but I still believe my argument is valid: there are certainly use cases for these kind of loading screens.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

#82
post #6

Why is this any different than Flash preloaders just a moment ago? And even worse - it doesn't show any progress so there isn't any user feedback. Every (bad) pattern seems to repeat itself. Just using current-cool-tech. I would much more appreciate that dev time would be put into a framework that allows graceful enchancement by deferring loading more heavy components and to allow user to interact with the site ASAP.…

Right? Does this seriously need to be a js library?
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