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firefox-3.5 package

  1. Bug #395749
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 395749

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In , Nicolas Briche (nbriche) wrote :

(In reply to comment #56)
> the cursor
> should have been replaced with one that doesn't indicate that the user can't
> interact with the app, rather than being removed.

Indeed. As said before, the cursor is sometimes the only UI indication that
something is going on. If the cursor doesn't change, then the obvious
conclusion is that nothing is going on. So if I click on a link, and nothing
is going on, what do I do? I click again. And again. Well, still nothing.
Let's double-click then? Nope, sill nothing. Middle-click? Nope.
Middle-double-click?

And when the user leaves full-screen, there's five tabs of the same slow
loading page (bonus points if the page loads some real-time report with lots of
complicated math on massive datasets).

I had to fight to make some of my users understand that the cursor tells them
if their click succeeded, and there's no need to click five time on a link,
because it won't make it load any faster. And now the cursor doesn't change
anymore...