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Comment by rstacruz

The "placebo progress bar" UI pattern isn't new.

For instance, there's no way to monitor the progress of sending an SMS message, yet the iPhone UI displays a progress bar for it. It assumes that SMS's take an average of 4 seconds to send, so the progress bar moves at that rate.

NProgress follows the same idea, and its default behavior operates similarly. Ideally, you should tweak the progress to be more in tune with your average load times (which is what I've done for our 2 apps that use it).

parent rstacruz 13 years ago

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