#interfacepatterns — Public Fediverse posts
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The spinning beach ball is a design pattern that regularly does my head in.
The original idea was that the spinning of the beach ball would tell you that the program wasn't hanging, or frozen, and would eventually get there. But almost nobody bothers to test that it actually does this in their software. I suspect that in some cases, the resources tied up in animating the beach ball are what's actually caused the program to hang 🙄
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The spinning beach ball is a design pattern that regularly does my head in.
The original idea was that the spinning of the beach ball would tell you that the program wasn't hanging, or frozen, and would eventually get there. But almost nobody bothers to test that it actually does this in their software. I suspect that in some cases, the resources tied up in animating the beach ball are what's actually caused the program to hang 🙄
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