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AJAX Activity Indicators
napyfab.com — A list of AJAX Activity Indicators images
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- OmegaSeraph, on 10/22/2007, -5/+15Looks a bit too similar to this page: http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators/
- neatflux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Perhaps, but it doesn't matter if it is public domain, I'm thinking. At least mentalized.net says that the ones it has are.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But they clearly added AJAX in big letters, so doesn't that make it newer and web 2.0 ready? unlike the old ones on that other site... heh.
I don't see what's so AJAX about them. They're fit for any website that needs a progress indicator. If the Black | White background thing is why it's there... well I just don't know what to say.
Dugg, these are useful images. (I needed one of the ones on black) - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes but these arent normal loading indicators, these are AJAX loading indicators! They cannot be used by any site that is not worthy.
- ryan_merket, on 10/22/2007, -5/+3very cool - thanks!
- omuppi1, on 10/12/2007, -21/+11They are animated gifs. No AJAX here...
- Crossing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The page itself is not supposed to be filled with AJAX, it's the icons that are supposed to be used with web applications.
- macgabriel87, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5nice. do you all see a pattern? its the one that spins around JUST like when my mac first boots. there are so many of them. so many different flavors
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6alot are just ripped right from mac, and one from lightbox
- zero_bit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21Wow, a bunch of stolen animated GIFs on one page. It's like I've fallen into some strange Internet time warp. Where are the "Under Construction" GIFs and animated dinosaurs? Where's the spinning globe and animated mailbox that says "E-MAIL" on it?
Oh right, it's ok because it says "AJAX". Apologies.- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You forgot using Javascript to scroll some crappy text in the status bar, HR's all over the place (especially fancy rainbow colored ones), a sweet marble-like background, and over use of the H1,H2, H3, and UL tags.
NEW! HOT!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You forgot using Javascript to scroll some crappy text in the status bar, HR's all over the place (especially fancy rainbow colored ones), a sweet marble-like background, and over use of the H1,H2, H3, and UL tags.
- brandonhines, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What's the license with these images? GPL? Copyrighted by a big name company?
- Ravensky, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4And the point of this is? To show a bunch of random animated GIFs?
- mbiesz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4What does this have to do with AJAX? And how are these useful indicators? Either use a real progress indicator, or save the user the extra bytes...
- cIprO, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@OP please tell me you are running some kind of sick test
where you test if people just digg this because it has the word "ajax" in the title?
because this is just pretty lame .. =) - alwiran, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4remember the years when it was called just animated gifs? ajax indicators indeed!
digg for the laughs - dan.grover, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is actually pretty cool as I've been looking for some images like these.
- zelphi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6These are gifs for use in Ajax applications. They are not created _with_ Ajax, they're to be used with Ajax. Settle down people.
- AF-Geek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3But if they just "spin" (or whatever the image shows) in a fashion unrelated to the actual activity, how is that related to AJAX?
Now, if it had SEVERAL images that were shown in relation to actual progress (like the bar was 50% shaded as the file was 50% uploaded), THAT would say AJAX to me.
- AF-Geek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3But if they just "spin" (or whatever the image shows) in a fashion unrelated to the actual activity, how is that related to AJAX?
- rockslayer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0lock em very much
- luke--, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7gifs, these are gif files. welcome to the web circa 1995 folks
- Ratty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6well animated PNG's (MNG) are almost entirely unsupported, so what else could be used?
- zadatak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2damn it! it still hasn't loaded yet!
- Squeegy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Just to clear this up, these are very useful images for creating Ajax applications. There is lag time between when the user does something, and when the server responds to the Ajax call. Showing a little animated gif in the meantime is a good way to let the user know something is happening. The trick is to find a way that looks good, and that is what the gifs on these page are for. Good ones, are hard to make, and hard to find, which is why I dugg and bookmarked this.
- charbarred, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1cool! I was just looking for one.
- amoeba, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4not AJAX but nice.
- amoeba, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3not AJAX but nice
- ChrisSoutham, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Absolute rubbish, no digg!
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Is this anything other than uncredited work ripped from other sites/people/companies? Am I missing something?
Maybe there should be an "ripped off material used to pimp a personal site" option in the "problem" box... - DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ripoffs of other peoples work without any consideration for giving them an ounce of credit.
It's not helpful either for those who don't know what to do with these pictures, so that's a minus point as well.
Simply reversing the background to black results in an amateurish-looking picture where the pictures are still surrounded by white.
Not dugg. - AB-R, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Whats are these gif's got to do with AJAX?
- gmailgeoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How totally irritating that the BLINK tag isn't included. ;)
- Falc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Help! I can't stop staring at that page!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is a fun page to just hold shift and click reload on all day. (For the retards out there, I am, in fact, kidding.)
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Since some people don't see how this has anything to do with AJAX.....The point of using an image like this with AJAX is so that the user knows that their input is being processed, even if it has not yet returned a result. Since the page does not post back to the server, there is no indication of whether their request is being executed, but with a little animation like this at least they know what's going on.
- a1programmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4These are ripped from other sites. One of the icons even says "remembermilk" in the filename !!! The orange circular one.
- mcewen98, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2As spoken by James Garret at a Ajax seminar I recently attened:
To be ajax, it must be:
"asynchronous interaction model
browser-native technologies
"
What does a page of animated GIF's have to do with ajax? Yet I will still give it a digg just to bookmark it. - scooterMX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Ajax Seminar?! You have to be kidding, right? James Garret?!
Asyncronous Javascript and XML. XMLHTTPRequest object. Now you know what AJAX is.
A fool and their money... I swear it's getting out of control.
I am hereby inventing AJAX 2.0 !!! It's a mashup of AJAX, but only used on oversized monochromatic blogs.- mcewen98, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes I agree with you - you are an idiot to think that I don't know what the AJAX acroynm stands for.
A fool for their money? Work paid for me to go, are you jealous? Are you saying you would pass up a free weekend in NYC? It was not just james garret, but also many other people, including a UI designer from Yahoo, and David Hannsen.. you know.... RoR.
It was quite interesting to hear what James Garret himself and others had to say about the Ajax craze. He was very candid, and I think there was some contempt for the fools like you who do not truely understand his intentions and for the others have taken things completely overboard - Everyone knows that AJAX is just a catchy marketing name that has been taken way too far. He does not take credit for creating a new "technology" It's also a little more than that though - it emcompasses a design methodology of creating pages without a full refresh... and yes I know, it's just fancy javascript using XHR that has existed way before the ajax name was made.
- mcewen98, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes I agree with you - you are an idiot to think that I don't know what the AJAX acroynm stands for.
- scooterMX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oh, and here's another definition:
Progress indicator: Something that communicates a status or indication of the progression of an event over time.
Activity indicator: something that moves when something (should be) happening.
The http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators/ page was titled correctly... - MattLat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sometimes I wonder about digg... when a list of animated gif's can make it to the front page because someone stuck the name "ajax" on it... that's just not right.
- simplesimon18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is enough interest in a web design (AJAX especially) digg style site that maybe they should spin off like Engadget Mobile did. It's starting to dominate the front page!
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http://www.shoutcentral.com- scooterMX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think you're right. But I think that a LOT of people digg simply to bookmark something. I've also noticed some people comment with a ' . ' or something just to bookmark also.
Digg should create a new tag - Bookmark - that doesn't give it a yay/nay, just stores the link in your profile...
Oh ya, that site's called de.licio.us..
- scooterMX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think you're right. But I think that a LOT of people digg simply to bookmark something. I've also noticed some people comment with a ' . ' or something just to bookmark also.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where's the tumbling duke?
- EricB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't help but be amazed at how a simple little acronym turned technology that people have been using for a while into the next big thing.
- architectzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't second this opinion enough. I can recall back in 2001 (and I was late to the party even then) when IE had deomnstrable XmlHttpRequest capabilities. I was developing a fairly complex site at the time that _required_ backwards support for the NN4 series. One of the requirements was a constantly updating "system messages" section; of course, we were forced to use frames with an auto-refreshing doc in the frame. But when we were doing proofs of concept we played around with the XmlHttp stuff in IE and it started the complaining about having to bother to support NN. It was just so slick.
I can recall revisiting this technology in IE just before Mozilla started to develop their own XmlHttp components. I couldn't WAIT for Mozilla to produce it. And then they did and suddenly it's now "okay" to use because the filthy evil MS didn't have an exclusive lock on the tech (even though at that time they had like what, 90% of the market?). So the "early adopters" become evangelists crowing about "the next big thing" when they were woefully late to the party.
Holy crap, MS actually did innovate!
- architectzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't second this opinion enough. I can recall back in 2001 (and I was late to the party even then) when IE had deomnstrable XmlHttpRequest capabilities. I was developing a fairly complex site at the time that _required_ backwards support for the NN4 series. One of the requirements was a constantly updating "system messages" section; of course, we were forced to use frames with an auto-refreshing doc in the frame. But when we were doing proofs of concept we played around with the XmlHttp stuff in IE and it started the complaining about having to bother to support NN. It was just so slick.
- scooterMX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1mcewan you made my point. Your company paid money for you to spend a 'free weekend' in NYC... To learn something you admit that you already knew! Something you could evaluate and implement without wasting time or money. Yes, I would pass up a 'free weekend' that wasted my time. If I want to go to New York, I'll just use the money I make by appropriately applying technology and design methodology where it's appropriate. Thats what my clients pay me to do, not throw buzz at them.
If you want to learn about UI design, Grab something by Tufte, Krug, Cooper, Nielsen, crap, even Woodruff, Wilson, or Robin Williams. I feel sorry for your company. Start looking for a job, the way they waste money tells me that you'll need one soon.
Oh, and check out the next seminar on your schedule: "TPM 1.0: Using 4"x4" paper squares to wipe the 'web 2.0' from your ass"...- mcewen98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My my.. what's up your ass?... if you don't like it, don't use it. You are making ignorant generalizations.. and no, my 200 year old "company" with over 18000 employees is not going anywhere anytime soon. I never said I went there to solely learn UI design.
Maybe you should spend some money on new less trendy glasses and getting those teeth fixed? - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Thats what my clients pay me to do, not throw buzz at them."
"AJAX" is far more marketable than "XHMHTTPRequest object."
Some people like to do the same work with added buzz for triple the rates.
Can't say I blame them...
- mcewen98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My my.. what's up your ass?... if you don't like it, don't use it. You are making ignorant generalizations.. and no, my 200 year old "company" with over 18000 employees is not going anywhere anytime soon. I never said I went there to solely learn UI design.
- rYno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1weird.. I was looking for one like 2 days ago...
and it should be GIF's cause these aren't ajax.. lol... whatever still good ref. - aspirinetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AJAX... isn't it a dutch soccer team?
- ibjhb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1site is down?
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Isn't the point of AJAX that you're only sending and receiving very small packets of data- ie. you don't have to wait around for the whole page to reload- just a short request and a few hundred bytes or so of raw data that takes very little time to send & receive?
If that's the case, why would an AJAX site need an animated .gif "activity indicator"? Wouldn't the fact that you're waiting long enough to see the animated .gif inply that there isn't actually any activity going on?
Perhaps "inactivity indicator" would be a more appropriate title?
"Warning- you should not have enough time to read this message."- dxbmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not necessarily a small amount of data. Also, the user expects feedback when they click on a
link. Traditionally this would be the 'throbber' in the browser to show that a new page is loading
but as this is not available a small icon or indicator lets the user know that something is happening
in the background. In the case of Gmail, this is the 'Loading...' indicator in the top right of the screen.
In the case of one of these 'spinners', it can be pre-loaded when the page loads and hidden via CSS
and revealed upon clicking a link.
- dxbmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not necessarily a small amount of data. Also, the user expects feedback when they click on a
- adamlivesley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0there just a set of progress icons?!
whats so ajax about them? why is ajax so big all of a sudden!? its been around for years! everyone used to hate javascript, now it seems to be loved!!
is ajax abit over rated? - gator99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Animated gifs are making a comeback ... whooda thunk it. We can only home that the flaming torch will make its way back.
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