Discussion Archive: August 2006

Browser throbbers are broken

Browser throbbers are broken. These spinning, swirling, pulsing
artifacts were a great way of indicating state back when a web page
wasn't loaded until it was loaded, and once it was loaded it didn't
need to load any more.

But the Web 2.0 blah blah has crept up on us, and I suddenly find
myself waiting for pages to load with no indication of state. I
interact with pages, wait for a response, but find myself without any
idea of whether the connection is actually working, or how long it
might take to finish the transaction.

Hypotheses about tasks

OK - so after conversations with several people, all of whom I've been
talking with separately, here are some hypotheses that seem to be taking
shape:

1) "The difficulty of completing a task is a function of the number of steps
involved in the task and the time it takes to perform each step."

2) "The time it takes to perform each step in a task is a function of the
relative complexity of the step and a person's willingness and/or ability to
understand and complete the step."

3) "The more difficult a task, the less likely it is to be completed."

I think this is

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IxDA "contact us" form is broken & list name suggestion

Hi,

http://www.ixda.org/en/contact_us/ doesn't work properly.

I was about to send a suggestion via the feedback form, but after
submitting it: "Permission Denied. The URL http://www.ixda.org/en/
contact_us/ cannot access CIB. Check config file."

Anyway, here's the suggestion that the CIB didn't receive :)

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Could the IxDA discussion list subject tag be capped simply into
[IxDA] please?

The current tag is rather long.