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View a pie-chart-style progress indicator in Safari 4 Beta
Authored by: osxpounder on Mar 02, '09 02:12:46PM

I don't think it's a progress indicator, because it doesn't actually tell you how much/far you've progressed, or even if you're making progress. It only tells you that Safari is still busy loading that tab (or at least that it is still trying to load it).

It has 2 states: moving, and not-moving. Whether your page is 50% loaded or 90% loaded, this indicator will look the same.

I think there's a word for that kind of thing, but I'm not sure. I'm betting someone else here knows, though!



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View a pie-chart-style progress indicator in Safari 4 Beta
Authored by: chyna4xena on Mar 03, '09 03:27:14PM

Are you sure that you are not looking at the 'wheel' indicator - which has separate spokes that light up sequentially, and therefore has only the moving and not-moving states? (And is seen elsewhere in the OSX as a 'waiting' indicator) The pie indicator (not seen anywhere else in the OS AFAIK) is a hollow circle at the beginning, then slowly fills clockwise, commensurate with the percentage of page loaded, until it fills completely (and then disappears) when the page is fully loaded.



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