'about:blank' is not handled properly, is not finishing the loading

[HoboPrimate]

As consequence, new tab shows small progress bar in the adress, and says "Loading..." at the bottom.

Test Case:

Open a new tab, you'll see a small progress bar in the adress bar. It will also say "Loading..." at the bottom.

Other test:

Write 'about:blank' in the URL entry and hit enter, same behaviour.

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[callkalpa]

With the patch the new tabs will say "Ready"

[garycmartin]

I thought these "Loading..." and URL messages in the bottom left of the screen were debug text messages while testing web kit, not an intended Browse feature to ship. At the very least they are rather distracting, not Sugar like, do not work for touch enabled devices (i.e. no ability to hover a cursor over a link), and should at best only appear if you delay hover over a link.

The "Loading..." message is superfluous to the design, that is what the Browse loading progress bar is there to indicate...

[callkalpa]

Replying to garycmartin:

I thought these "Loading..." and URL messages in the bottom left of the screen were debug text messages while testing web kit, not an intended Browse feature to ship. At the very least they are rather distracting, not Sugar like, do not work for touch enabled devices (i.e. no ability to hover a cursor over a link), and should at best only appear if you delay hover over a link.

The "Loading..." message is superfluous to the design, that is what the Browse loading progress bar is there to indicate...

In the case where it takes a lot of time to load and the progress bar takes a considerable time to show a significant change (specially at the very beginning), still the user will know that the page is loading.

[garycmartin]

Replying to callkalpa:

Replying to garycmartin:

I thought these "Loading..." and URL messages in the bottom left of the screen were debug text messages while testing web kit, not an intended Browse feature to ship. At the very least they are rather distracting, not Sugar like, do not work for touch enabled devices (i.e. no ability to hover a cursor over a link), and should at best only appear if you delay hover over a link.

The "Loading..." message is superfluous to the design, that is what the Browse loading progress bar is there to indicate...

In the case where it takes a lot of time to load and the progress bar takes a considerable time to show a significant change (specially at the very beginning), still the user will know that the page is loading.

A graphical spinner in the Tab can be used to avoid localisation of the word "Loading...", or the word Loading... could be the Tab name while loading, or a graphical spinner could be shown in the middle of the loading canvas space (ideally composited over whatever page is there, but it could be a solid rectangle with a spinner on it).

[callkalpa]

Replying to garycmartin:

Replying to callkalpa:

Replying to garycmartin:

I thought these "Loading..." and URL messages in the bottom left of the screen were debug text messages while testing web kit, not an intended Browse feature to ship. At the very least they are rather distracting, not Sugar like, do not work for touch enabled devices (i.e. no ability to hover a cursor over a link), and should at best only appear if you delay hover over a link.

The "Loading..." message is superfluous to the design, that is what the Browse loading progress bar is there to indicate...

In the case where it takes a lot of time to load and the progress bar takes a considerable time to show a significant change (specially at the very beginning), still the user will know that the page is loading.

A graphical spinner in the Tab can be used to avoid localisation of the word "Loading...", or the word Loading... could be the Tab name while loading, or a graphical spinner could be shown in the middle of the loading canvas space (ideally composited over whatever page is there, but it could be a solid rectangle with a spinner on it).

A graphical spinner like in firefox will look nice

[humitos]

I was researching about this problem.

I found that the progress bar, webkit and our browser work good. I mean, there is no problem neither with the "progress" value of the webkit nor with opening a new tab as we (manuq and I) thought; instead the problem is with the "about:blank" page.

Try this:

1. Open Browse, you will see the sugar labs page by default
2. Go to the URL address bar and type: "about:blank"
3. You will see the "Loading.." at the bottom and you will see the progress bar in the 10%, right?

Well, the problem here is that webkit stops in this status: "<enum WEBKIT_LOAD_PROVISIONAL of type WebKitLoadStatus>" with progress in 0.1 (10%) and it never gets the "<enum WEBKIT_LOAD_FINISHED of type WebKitLoadStatus>" status with progress in 1.0 (100%)

So, the question is: why when you open "about:blank" webkit never gets the FINISHED status?

[humitos]

manuq's test