Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)

Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by IggleSniggle on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:40AM (#29188266)

iOS does this when loading/switching apps. It takes a snapshot of the app as it was when closed, and then when you are loading that app as it was when you closed it it just shows the screenshot until the app state is reloaded.

The hope is that the app is fully loaded before you actually attempt to interact with what you see on the screen.

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Re:Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020) by still_grokking on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:35PM (#29191316)

I think Windows does the same between desktop-compositor crashes and restarts. (When it doesn't get to bad, as than you just get a back screen with the mouse cursor until the compositor isn't restarted).

At least that was my perception as I used Win 10.

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