(Lack of) Progress Bars

by Jacob 15. November 2006 02:44

More griping. I know! You'd think I were a negative person. I'm not really. I don't think.

Anyway, this one is short. I've noticed a trend lately (okay, in two products that I sort of like) where developers are using a progress bar to indicate that the program is busy and will get back to you shortly. Now, to me, there's a reason that ye ole progress bar has a Minimum, a Maximum and a Value. You know, it has a task that starts at some value, that value "progresses" until it hits some ending where it can then stop.

No doubt I'm being over-sensitive. Still, it isn't like actual busy gifs are hard to find. I mean, some sites will even generate them to order.

 

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