Blue pinwheel javascript cursor?

[mcdj]

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/play...or&preval=wait

[EvanLugh]

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!]

Originally Posted by mcdj

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/play...or&preval=wait

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.

[Comeagain?]

Originally Posted by Let's Sekuhara!

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.

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.

[WilliamG]

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]

Originally Posted by WilliamG

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.

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

[WilliamG]

Originally Posted by arn

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

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.

[Weaselboy]

Originally Posted by WilliamG

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.

Odd you see it and I don't at all. 2012 13" MBA on 10.8.2 with Safari.

[WilliamG]

Originally Posted by Weaselboy

Odd you see it and I don't at all. 2012 13" MBA on 10.8.2 with Safari.

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]

Originally Posted by arn

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

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]

Originally Posted by SandboxGeneral

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.

Zero beachballs here, but I noticed the wider format as well. I'd prefer it narrower, but it's not a huge deal.

[arn]

Originally Posted by SandboxGeneral

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.

Originally Posted by GGJstudios

Zero beachballs here, but I noticed the wider format as well. I'd prefer it narrower, but it's not a huge deal.

We talking about the forums or the front page?

arn

[arn]

Originally Posted by arn

We talking about the forums or the front page?

arn

nevermind, I fixed it.

arn

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Originally Posted by WilliamG

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!)

I already said: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...54&postcount=6

arn

[WilliamG]

Originally Posted by arn

nevermind, I fixed it.

arn

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I already said: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost...54&postcount=6

arn

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.

[arn]

Originally Posted by WilliamG

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.

Yep, just on Monday.

arn

[WilliamG]

Originally Posted by arn

Yep, just on Monday.

arn

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?!

[arn]

Originally Posted by WilliamG

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?!

Nope, haven't changed the JavaScript.

arn

[WilliamG]

Originally Posted by arn

Nope, haven't changed the JavaScript.

arn

Very bizarre. Well thanks for the replies. Just have to hope the blue stays away!