If only it were easy to just turn to the PM and say "no, you're wrong. We have a much bigger underlying issue that we'll be covering up with this kind of fix. Instead of making users feel better as good conservative use of wait/progress/etc indicators can do when not abused - it will become a huge annoyance and may be attributed with some level of retardation of the system by users after a while. "
Oh yeah. I've been there, done that. It goes nowhere. I'd say more, but its a public forum ;-) And in this case, I'm not sure it is a MUCH bigger underlying issue. There is a certain minimum latency we get from some services. It doesn't increase significantly with dataset size, so it isn't likely to get much worse in the near future. But it is enough to warrant letting the user know what's up. Much like waiting for a plane ticket response from expedia. No one expects to get a list of fares in 100ms, so they throw a progress indicator up there while you wait. --sam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
