[dev] [patch] enhancement: redbox loading animation on login

[Vilius Šumskas]

Sveiki,

> Hi!

> We experienced a long delay while login resp while loading the
> frameset. During this time the browser window is empty and the user has no
> idea what happens next. Especially with a huge amount of folders the sidebar
> takes quite some time to load.
> So the attached patch adds some eye candy while login. The first (smaller)
> part of this patch add RedBox.loading() after pressing login button on login
> form.
> Using RedBox.loading() within frameset file was not that easy so we replaced
> the contents of the two frames with a special preloader page. This page
> contains an IFrame filling the whole frame and calls RedBox.loading()
> right after loading the preload page has been finished but before the IFrame
> has been loaded. If the IFrame content is complete the RedBox animation is
> stopped.
> We testet it with Firefox 2, IE6 and IE7. Maybe the code requires some
> adjustment for other browsers. Would be nice if the patch (or a successor of
> it) mades it into CVS.

Personally I never liked the idea about such "loading" features in the
web pages. In my opinion it only makes thing more complex, slower and
there is a status bar in the browser for this.

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Best regards,
 Vilius