Re:Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4,...
by jonreem on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:18PM
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It's not like you can just skip writing those checks even if the browser indicator was more visible, people will still spam click and you still need to handle it correctly.
Re:Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4,...
by kpil on Saturday June 23, 2018 @05:52AM
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I don't know about 'older' devs, in my experience just about everyone else except the developer who wrote a particular slow function will spam-click if nothing happens after a little while when clicking on something.
Not just ordinary people. I see the same behavior daily on older tech people, who fail to notice the (ever shrinking) browser loading indicator.
Honestly, it seems like Safari is the only browser that still cares to show a visible loading indicator, that takes up the whole address bar in a bright blue color, last time I checked.
Chrome and Firefox seem bent on a war to see who can infuriate their users the most, by removing one of the most important pieces of feedback on which the web experience is based.
As a result, we (the devs) need to add a ton of server-side checks to discard the multiple clicks that users invariably make, because they can't see that their first click went through.
Some times I'd like to know what the browser people smoke.