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timothytoe
I'm always irritated by web pages that break my expectations. I'd like
my own web page to conform to expectations as much as possible. One
problem I'm having is that when the user comes to my page it's quickly
loaded and it says "Done" and the "Stop Loading This Page" button
ghosts while I'm doing Ajax loading. If I had a way to turn that
message to "Loading" or turn that Stop Sign back on and intercept it,
I could easily to what the user wanted--stop loading the page.
I've seen this quirk in other Ajax applications, but I haven't seen
much discussion about it. I have seen a lot of discussion about
imperatives to not break the Forward and the Back button.
What I do now is turn on the Wait cursor. Hopefully that's enough to
give the user the message that loading is still happening. I also have
a progress bar. In other web pages, I've seen blank areas that display
the common "rotating dot" busy signal until the content comes in.
I'm assuming that no modern browser will allow me to override that
Done message and turn that Stop Button back on. Am I correct in making
that assumption?
my own web page to conform to expectations as much as possible. One
problem I'm having is that when the user comes to my page it's quickly
loaded and it says "Done" and the "Stop Loading This Page" button
ghosts while I'm doing Ajax loading. If I had a way to turn that
message to "Loading" or turn that Stop Sign back on and intercept it,
I could easily to what the user wanted--stop loading the page.
I've seen this quirk in other Ajax applications, but I haven't seen
much discussion about it. I have seen a lot of discussion about
imperatives to not break the Forward and the Back button.
What I do now is turn on the Wait cursor. Hopefully that's enough to
give the user the message that loading is still happening. I also have
a progress bar. In other web pages, I've seen blank areas that display
the common "rotating dot" busy signal until the content comes in.
I'm assuming that no modern browser will allow me to override that
Done message and turn that Stop Button back on. Am I correct in making
that assumption?