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Re:Favicon bug by inglor on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:07PM (#9720952)
An ajax loop requires you to have JavaScript enabled and will show you a loader indicator.
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Re:Favicon bug by aw3c2 on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:20PM (#9722222)
> loader indicator

There is nothing with Ajax that does that automatically or even by default.

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Re:Favicon bug by diggan on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:32PM (#9721106)
How about just an huge image? The programmer implementing the ajax call doesn't necessary have to implement a loader indicator either...
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Re:Favicon bug by inglor on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:03PM (#9721302)
The browser will give you a visual indicator (a loading sign) at the browser level for images or AJAX and JavaScript can be disabled.

With the favicon issue these things don't happen.

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Re:Favicon bug by realityking on Monday June 15, 2015 @04:08PM (#9721719)
I'm pretty sure I've never seen a loading indicator for AJAX either in Safari or Chrome.
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Re:Favicon bug by iDemonix on Monday June 15, 2015 @04:09PM (#9721724)
True but the amount of webpages I visit where the spinning icon never stops spinning, I don't really pay it a 2nd thought. An enormous image set to hidden would have a similar effect.

Mind you I'm sat at home with a 300Mbps fibre connection, so I don't give as much thought to bandwidth as a roaming 4G/3G user might.

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Re:Favicon bug by plaguuuuuu on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:26PM (#9723638)
True, regarding JS.

Web workers will not show a loader indicator however. You could probably do a nice DDoS attack like this even. But it requires users to be on your site anyway. Might as well just stick 0day du jour on it.

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