What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Go to a website.. 2. Navigate to another.. 3. And another...
What is the expected output? What do you see instead? There isn't a lot of visual feedback about what is going on, especially when the loading takes a while. Some ideas would be:
Make sure the spinner always updates - there are times when it doesn't.
Make the fwd/back buttons change colour when touched, sometimes it isn't clear that they are activated
Comment #1
Posted on Nov 11, 2007 by Helpful Elephant(No comment was entered for this change.)
Comment #2
Posted on Nov 15, 2007 by Swift Birdboth excellent points maybe a loading bar would be more obvious than the spinner maybe add a small 'click' sound for button presses and links and such -- that would help identify when something has been touched
lovin the progress
Comment #3
Posted on Nov 15, 2007 by Swift Bird- a status bar would be great!
you could throw a status bar on the top or bottom of one of the screens that says whats happening any time something is happening. just like the status bar at the bottom of your favorite PC web browser. and then if you want, you can make the status bar go away when there's nothing happening.
Comment #4
Posted on Feb 13, 2008 by Grumpy HorseThe small rolling wheel in the bottom right corner suffices for me, just to know that the page is loading. The problem with a status bar is space. The resolution of either screen is only 256x192, making it hard enough to scale a page down.
Comment #5
Posted on Feb 15, 2008 by Helpful ElephantI've fixed some of my original complaints in the new release. Now clicking things gives much more feedback. You can "waffle" out of clicking a link/button/text field by dragging the stylus off it before it activates. I stole the feel from Powder, which I think was inspired by the last Zelda game.
I will add a status/progress bar at some point... The spinner is OK, it at least gives some indication what is going on, but my complaint with it is you don't know how much of a page is left.
And I like the sound idea... changing the title to reflect that!
Comment #6
Posted on Mar 2, 2008 by Helpful Elephantr669 adds a progress bar that looks pretty similar to the yellow bar from the very first release. It also has the page name ("index.html" or whatever) and % loaded, more or less, this is tricky to tell sometimes as content-length is not always sent.
Status: Started
Labels:
Type-Enhancement
Priority-High
Component-Bunjalloo
Milestone-0_5
Usability