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Ajax Loading Indicators

Jan

Okay, with the obsession of Ajaxifying everything comes instances where the user has to wait for something to finish loading - this should be indicated with some sort of loading prompt. AjaxLoad tags itself as being Web 2.0 with it's mocking BETA tag, yet provides an easy to use way of creating and downloading a custom indicator whilst still having an attractive interface.

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Hi David,
This is Sourjya from Chaos Lab (http://chaos-laboratory.com). I thought I should inform you that there seems to be some sort of problem with your RSS Feed. I'm subscribed to your feed through the software called FeedReader and feeds from all other sources turn up in time.. except for New Earth Online. More often than not, your feeds appears 4-5days late and that too NOT in order. Say, I'd receive one of your recent posts and one post from 3-4 days back. This hasn't happened just once - it invariable happens everytime.

A lot of times, if I find some new feed interesting and drop by your site to check it out I'm unable to find the post on the front page - coz by then you're made some more posts and that particular article has moved out to some other page.

It might be some problem with my feed reader - but then it should act the same with all other sources too, right? So you might want to take a look and see if your feed mechanism is actually in perfect order.

Best Regards,
Sourjya

Anonymous commented 3 years ago

Hi Sourja,

Thanks for your comments, I've taken a look at the feed and found it was getting content not just from news posts, but also from articles.

I've now split these down so that the news as normal is fed from:

http://www.newearthonline.co.uk/pages/feed.php

and the articles from:

http://www.newearthonline.co.uk/pages/feed.php&topic=articles

I'm not sure at the minute why the feeds turn up late, I'm going to try using FeedReader myself and see what I can find out - it could be the last modified date isn't correct.

Thanks a lot for the heads up there, I'll try and find what causes FeedReader to treat my feed differently to others and get back to you as soon as possible. So far I've not been able to replicate it in other feed readers (such as Firefox, or Vienna on the Mac).

Regards,

David G. Paul

David G. Paul commented 3 years ago

I've had a go with FeedReader, and the only thing I can think of is that maybe you have it set to "Intelliupdate" which for some reason might not update as often as it should.

From http://www.feedreader.com/node/289:

"Intelliupdate tries to do it. For example if there is only one new article in few days in some feed, there is no point of polling this feed every 10 minutes. And for example if there are new items every 10 minutes then Feedreader polls for new items every 10 minutes."

Since there are some occassions where I don't update for a couple of days FeedReader is likely to assume it doesn't need to check again for a few days.

Hope this helps!

David G. Paul commented 3 years ago