News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website.

Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by geuis on Friday September 20, 2013 @03:26PM (#6419940)
No, please, stop, don't do this.

This is a terrible UI experience. Note: I have been living and working with iOS 7 since the first beta. I know it's new and shiny to everyone else, but this is absolutely the worst thing to add to your site. It serves no functional purpose and just clashes with devices that do this natively.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by sandipc on Friday September 20, 2013 @03:46PM (#6420042)
Sincere question: what does this have to do with iOS 7?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by taspeotis on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:12PM (#6420840)
Putting a thin progress bar at the top of your page is competing with Mobile Safari's thin progress bar at the top of your page.

Aside from the whole Department of Redundancy Department feel, they both display progress at different rates.

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by gallaghersean on Friday September 20, 2013 @11:42PM (#6421903)
Why not just detect which browser is viewing the site and not show the progress bar for mobile and safari browsers? That should solve this "double watch" issue.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by camus on Saturday September 21, 2013 @06:50AM (#6422592)
Because broswer detection is an anti-pattern , and you dont know in a few years if chrome will do the same... Will you go back to all your projects to fix them ?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by sudont on Friday September 20, 2013 @03:53PM (#6420083)
Check out the "minimal" one on the page. iOS's new web progress bar looks like that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by j03w on Friday September 20, 2013 @06:42PM (#6420982)
I think Chrome Android has this sort of progress bar way before iOS7.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by cheeaun on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:44PM (#6421426)
Chrome for iOS as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website by mistercow on Friday September 20, 2013 @08:47PM (#6421437)
There are plenty of options that don't look like the iOS loading bar. And it does serve a functional purpose. Manipulating the user's sense of time is an important part of improving UX.
[ Parent | on HN ]