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Blue pinwheel javascript cursor?

EvanLugh

EvanLugh

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i believe it depends which browser you're using. For example in chrome, i get the watch. There was an article somewhere about websites setting it for certain browsers. I think safari has always had it, though?
 
Let's Sekuhara!

Let's Sekuhara!

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Jun 30, 2008
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mcdj said:
Has something changed at MR? All of a sudden I'm getting a spinning blue pinwheel for "cursor: wait" when MR pages are loading in Safari. I've never seen it here before. It's either something's changed on the MR side, or it's Lion.

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/playit.asp?filename=playcss_cursor&preval=wait
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By "MR" I presume you are talking about the Japanese region-specific build of OS X 10.8 ..."Mountain Rion"

Right?
No?
Not so much?
...ok, fine. I will disappear back into teh shadowz of teh interwebz from whence I came. And take my cheesy jokes with me. :rolleyes:
 
Comeagain?

Comeagain?

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Let's Sekuhara! said:
By "MR" I presume you are talking about the Japanese region-specific build of OS X 10.8 ..."Mountain Rion"

Right?
No?
Not so much?
...ok, fine. I will disappear back into teh shadowz of teh interwebz from whence I came. And take my cheesy jokes with me. :rolleyes:
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Terrible joke you mean. We all refer to MacRumors as MR. Because we're lazy like that.

I get the Blue pin wheel sometimes on lots of different websites. Nothing specific to Macrumors.
 
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WilliamG

macrumors G3
Mar 29, 2008
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3,800
Seattle
I just started today getting the blue pinwheel javascript ball on Macrumors. Happening an awful lot. Any ideas, people?

2012 iMac, 10.8.2, using Safari.
 
arn

arn

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WilliamG said:
I just started today getting the blue pinwheel javascript ball on Macrumors. Happening an awful lot. Any ideas, people?

2012 iMac, 10.8.2, using Safari.
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We made the site a little more Javascript intensive. But not massively so. We are lazy loading more items. So after the main page is displayed, Javascript loads additional items. The overall goal is to make the initial usable load faster, while later loading other items via Javascript.

I'm not sure why you'd be getting slow-downs more than others though, esp with modern hardware.

arn
 
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WilliamG

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Mar 29, 2008
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arn said:
We made the site a little more Javascript intensive. But not massively so. We are lazy loading more items. So after the main page is displayed, Javascript loads additional items. The overall goal is to make the initial usable load faster, while later loading other items via Javascript.

I'm not sure why you'd be getting slow-downs more than others though, esp with modern hardware.

arn
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I'm not getting any "noticeable" slowdowns, that I can tell. I just really don't like seeing the pinwheel all the time. It's not actually affecting anything except drawing my attention to the cursor, because it looks like something bad is happening! Spinning wheels = bad!

And yes, I'm not thrilled to be using Macrumors right now, that's for sure. :(
 
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WilliamG

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Weaselboy said:
Odd you see it and I don't at all. 2012 13" MBA on 10.8.2 with Safari. :confused:
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Yep not sure what the dealio is. I'm curious as to what changed on the site in the last 24-or-so hours. Hopefully arn can reply again and say if the changes happened then or if it's something else.

Interestingly, later today I haven't seen any blue pinwheels on Macrumors...

(now watch it happen about 5 minutes after I post this!)
 
SandboxGeneral

SandboxGeneral

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arn said:
We made the site a little more Javascript intensive. But not massively so. We are lazy loading more items. So after the main page is displayed, Javascript loads additional items. The overall goal is to make the initial usable load faster, while later loading other items via Javascript.

I'm not sure why you'd be getting slow-downs more than others though, esp with modern hardware.

arn
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I'm not getting any blue pinwheels and the site is working fine for me. However I did notice that the formatting of the site is wider now. I only noticed because I had to adjust the width of my browser because it was getting cut off, where it wasn't a day or two ago.
 
GGJstudios

GGJstudios

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May 16, 2008
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SandboxGeneral said:
I'm not getting any blue pinwheels and the site is working fine for me. However I did notice that the formatting of the site is wider now. I only noticed because I had to adjust the width of my browser because it was getting cut off, where it wasn't a day or two ago.
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Zero beachballs here, but I noticed the wider format as well. I'd prefer it narrower, but it's not a huge deal.
 
arn

arn

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SandboxGeneral said:
I'm not getting any blue pinwheels and the site is working fine for me. However I did notice that the formatting of the site is wider now. I only noticed because I had to adjust the width of my browser because it was getting cut off, where it wasn't a day or two ago.
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GGJstudios said:
Zero beachballs here, but I noticed the wider format as well. I'd prefer it narrower, but it's not a huge deal.
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We talking about the forums or the front page?

arn
 
arn

arn

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arn said:
We talking about the forums or the front page?

arn
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nevermind, I fixed it.

arn

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WilliamG said:
Yep not sure what the dealio is. I'm curious as to what changed on the site in the last 24-or-so hours. Hopefully arn can reply again and say if the changes happened then or if it's something else.

Interestingly, later today I haven't seen any blue pinwheels on Macrumors...

(now watch it happen about 5 minutes after I post this!)
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I already said: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16706054/

arn
 
arn

arn

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WilliamG said:
Yes, you already said. But I was curious as to the timing. Was it in the last 48 hours, or was it a week or two ago that you made the site more java-intensive? I'm just trying to narrow down exactly when you made those changes. :)
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Yep, just on Monday.

arn
 
arn

arn

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WilliamG said:
OK cheers for the update. I'll have to see how it goes. Didn't see any more pinwheels after I posted. Did you change anything since the change?!:D
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Nope, haven't changed the JavaScript.

arn
 
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