Timeline for Are hourglass cursors still relevant?
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| Sep 12, 2013 at 19:52 | vote | accept | Chris | ||
| Sep 9, 2013 at 22:20 | answer | added | Möoz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 21:23 | answer | added | Koen Lageveen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 3, 2013 at 15:04 | comment | added | Chris | @Jop In many cases I would agree with you, but the answer in this case is complicated and not relevant to this discussion. | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 13:18 | comment | added | jobukkit | "This program only runs on Windows." Off-topic but: Why? Limiting your app to Windows is one of the most stupid things you could do as a developer. You miss out customers. | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 11:39 | comment | added | poke | “busy cursors being hated” – They are hated because waiting for something is always being hated :P | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 7:49 | comment | added | peterchen | best practice: use the platform-specific one, if there is one. (I still have fond memories of walking dino.) On Windows the system default is hourglass until XP, spinny since Vista. | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 6:27 | answer | added | Kumar Bibek | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 30, 2013 at 0:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/373237423469518848 | ||
| Aug 29, 2013 at 21:22 | answer | added | Alexey Kolchenko | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 20:42 | comment | added | Chris | It queries a web service, changes the search button to a cancel button, and starts a timer. I'm sure we could come up with an animation appropriate to the data, but it's client software and they would never want to pay for it. | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 19:34 | history | edited | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2013 at 18:02 | comment | added | Danny Varod | I like it when applications use domain-specific busy cursors/animations e.g. an animation of virus scanning in anti-viruses. What does your operation do? | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 17:44 | history | edited | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2013 at 17:30 | answer | added | mawcsco | timeline score: 43 | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 17:28 | answer | added | Brian | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 17:26 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 29, 2013 at 17:10 | history | asked | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |