[browser] No progress feedback while waiting for server to respond

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

1. Click a link to a resource on a server that is slow to respond.

What happens: Between the time you tap the link, and the time the server responds, there is no feedback that anything is happening.

What should happen: Some sort of progress feedback.

For example, Safari and Internet Explorer allocate a small fraction of the overall progress bar to the sub-task of waiting for the server to respond.

Chrome's page-load spinner spins anti-clockwise while waiting for the server, then clockwise once it starts receiving data.

[Adnane Belmadiaf (daker)]

FF for android have removed the spinner & implemented a progressbar under the adressebar

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117921306881702450038/posts/fHzpEy8V9KL

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Adnane, how progress is shown in general (spinner, progress bar, or something else) is a separate topic. This bug is specifically that waiting for a server is not included in the progress display.

[Giorgio Venturi (giorgio-venturi-deactivatedaccount)]

I totally agree with the proposed solution, a portion of the scroll bar (e.g. 10%) will be dedicated to receiving a response from the server.

The progress bar will sit beneath the top bar - please check this animation:

https://drive.google.com/a/canonical.com/file/d/0B9KJYNazZUZjaE5EVHRURllTTTA/edit?usp=sharing

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Giorgio, that link takes me to a login page.

[Giorgio Venturi (giorgio-venturi-deactivatedaccount)]

Changed sharing settings to make it visible

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This appears to have been fixed by switching to oxide, which is built on the chromium content API, which seems to allocate the first few percents of the progress to waiting for a response from the server, as desired.