New User Experience

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.325.1246318374.13405.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky<a at a.a> wrote:
>> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
>> news:a6268ff76dc8cbc6e39c453506 at news.digitalmars.com...
>>> Hello Nick,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Not everyone uses one of the "#1 fastest" browsers (heh, see what I
>>>> did there?). For those people, like me, when they go to the "Projects"
>>>> link, the page really comes across like it's hung or broken even
>>>> though it says "Loading...". And it really takes awhile. That needs to
>>>> be improved. Maybe shifting some of whatever processing is going on to
>>>> the server side
>>>
>>> IIRC the slow load is because it is on the server side. Some scipt is
>>> loading the full set of projects every time the page loads.
>>
>> There's definitely at least something going on client side. Otherwise 
>> there
>> wouldn't be that "Loading..." message that shows up at first and 
>> dissapears
>> when it's loaded. Maybe it's just something trivial. But while it's 
>> loading
>> my browser doesn't *seem* to behave as if it's waiting for content from 
>> the
>> server...I really should take a look at that page source...
>
> It basically consists of a div that says "Loading..." which is
> replaced by the content loaded asynchronously.
>
> Would it help if it had one of those spinny-wheel images?  ;)

Ha ;)  But, IMHO, a synchronous load would be much less confusing.