David Carson wrote: > the main issue that it tries to address is that on really really slow > networks, the user goes to a site and takes a long time to load, and > they think the browser has stopped working or is not doing anything and > give up and cancel the load. > By showing some content, some progress, the user can see that there is > activity and will continue to wait for the page to load. > Again, this is for slow network connections (ie low bandwidth)
I used this on a real mobile device with a slow connection for a couple of weeks to get a feel for it. As a browser developer, the feature at first seemed neat. But as an end user I found that the appearance of styling up to ~10/20 seconds later was annoying, since by that point I'd already started reading the unstyled content and was getting the information I needed. The subsequent CSS load often meant I had to find the newly-styled paragraph and start reading it all over again. Maybe it's subjective, and maybe there's a technical solution to make the transition from unstyled to styled content less distracting. I've pinged some other mobile browser developers to get their thoughts on this. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
