New User Experience

[Jarrett Billingsley]

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?  ;)