292879 - Spinning web page loading cursor breaks apple human interface guidelines

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jason Piper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
Build Identifier: 

Whilst a page is loading under firefox on OS X, a cursor appears with a spinning disc at the bottom right 
hand corner or it, this icontradicts the apple human interface guidelines, which says that if an asyncronous  
progress indicator is used (in this case the throbber), an animated cursor is not required.

furthermore, animated cursors are not supposed to be used in new deveopment.

Reproducible: Always




here is the apple interface guidelines i referred to...


http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGCursors/
chapter_15_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-CH236-TPXREF101

Comment 1

[jhp (no longer active)]

According to that Apple page, we should use a progress indicator to denote
progress, not cursors.  We already have the throbber to show progress, so the
cursor should just be a normal arrow cursor when a page is loading.

Bug 78363 added some of the support for the spinning cursor.

Comment 2

[Jason Piper]

(In reply to comment #1)
> According to that Apple page, we should use a progress indicator to denote
> progress, not cursors.  We already have the throbber to show progress, so the
> cursor should just be a normal arrow cursor when a page is loading.

perfect!

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Let's fix this, unless its nontrivial/scary.

Comment 4

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Well, the the current cursor we use is, for sure,  wrong (it is used on app
hangs!). However, i don't think we should use the normal cursor, the one that
Camino uses is the best choice IMO.

Taking.

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Er, the current trunk (at least on 10.4) does use the right cursor.

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

For some reason, I was conviced we were using the colorful disk (my builds are
probably slow enough to get it either way).

For now, WONTFIXing, the current cursor is desired, at least in the case where
the throbor isn't visible (either by removing it using the customize toolbar
window or by collapsing the toolbars or in popups).