{"id":115,"date":"2005-10-28T18:37:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T08:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-12-29T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T02:44:24","slug":"subtle-flag-waving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/10\/28\/subtle-flag-waving\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtle Flag Waving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of major issues with Internet Explorer that I wish they would fix. Here is a really, really minor one that annoys me again and again.<\/p>\n<p>Just about all browsers follow a convention &#8211; a logo in the bar at the top that animates while the page is loading.<\/p>\n<p>The logo in IE has been through several iterations &#8211; the current one is a picture of the Windows logo that waves in the wind while the download proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>My complaint is the subtlety of the movement.  You need to concentrate on the flag for several hundred milliseconds before you can tell whether it is really moving. That doesn&#8217;t sound long, but it is far longer than you need to focus on most progress indicators. [I realise that the total time taken to write this blog post  is more than all of the time wasted on that icon, put together. That is <em>so<\/em> not the point.]<\/p>\n<p>I should be careful what I wish for &#8211; I am not after something that is so aggressively attractive that it distracts me from working on another application while I wait. However, simply changing to a different colour while the file is loading would be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of major issues with Internet Explorer that I wish they would fix. Here is a really, really minor one that annoys me again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[198,113,197,50],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology","tag-internet-explorer","tag-ui","tag-usability","tag-whinge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}