What do you guys think of having the absolute minimum page with inlined everything (even images) that just shows a simple progress bar - it loads the rest of CSS/JS/whatever.
I've done it once for a large front end app, and it worked pretty well - the user gets an almost instant webpage and sees that the stuff is loading.
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What do you guys think of having the absolute minimum page with inlined everything (even images) that just shows a simple progress bar - it loads the rest of CSS/JS/whatever.
I've done it once for a large front end app, and it worked pretty well - the user gets an almost instant webpage and sees that the stuff is loading.
Ok it has been done(!) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816152
I would greatly prefer you make websites that don't require progress bars.
Browser progress bars are hardly reliable though.
IE's can get to ~80% before a single byte is received.
You are duplicating the 'loading' indicators in the browser.
It helps mobile users determine if their connection is simply slow or completely timed out.
If I don't see even a loading screen, I assume my connection is bad and reload, instead of giving it a bunch of time to load absolutely everything.
I'd prefer if it had text I could read while I'm waiting for your 1000x1000 background image to load.
Gmail greats us with a loading indicator like that.
Only works if you can play tetris while you wait