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knowtheory on April 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: SVG Girl IE9 HTML5 Promo

I love that the progress loader behaves just like windows 98 application installers do. Linear count up until object 56/107 loaded... 30 second pause... sudden jump to 80 objects loaded, and the loading UI flips out trying to catch up.

Microsoft is nothing if not consistent(ly bad).

lloeki on April 18, 2011 [–]

It's an object counter progress loader, not a progress bar. It has no reason to be linear.

knowtheory on April 18, 2011 | [–]

That's fine, but the way the UI behaves appears to be tied to the load % completion. So the fact that it freaks out is a bit of a problem.

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