Status bar and clicking sounds request

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to a website..
2. Navigate to another..
3. And another...

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
There isn't a lot of visual feedback about what is going on, especially
when the loading takes a while. Some ideas would be:

* Make sure the spinner always updates - there are times when it doesn't.

* Make the fwd/back buttons change colour when touched, sometimes it isn't
clear that they are activated

Original issue reported on code.google.com by richard.quirk on 3 Nov 2007 at 10:59

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Original comment by richard.quirk on 11 Nov 2007 at 6:34

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both excellent points
maybe a loading bar would be more obvious than the spinner
maybe add a small 'click' sound for button presses and links and such -- that 
would 
help identify when something has been touched

lovin the progress

Original comment by abem...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2007 at 8:15

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* a status bar would be great!

you could throw a status bar on the top or bottom of one of the screens that 
says 
whats happening any time something is happening.  just like the status bar at 
the 
bottom of your favorite PC web browser.  and then if you want, you can make the 
status bar go away when there's nothing happening.

Original comment by abem...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2007 at 9:11

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The small rolling wheel in the bottom right corner suffices for me, just to 
know 
that the page is loading. The problem with a status bar is space. The 
resolution of 
either screen is only 256x192, making it hard enough to scale a page down. 

Original comment by bran...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2008 at 2:40

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I've fixed some of my original complaints in the new release. Now clicking 
things
gives much more feedback. You can "waffle" out of clicking a link/button/text 
field
by dragging the stylus off it before it activates. I stole the feel from Powder,
which I think was inspired by the last Zelda game.

I will add a status/progress bar at some point... The spinner is OK, it at least
gives some indication what is going on, but my complaint with it is you don't 
know
how much of a page is left.

And I like the sound idea... changing the title to reflect that!

Original comment by richard.quirk on 15 Feb 2008 at 9:53

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r669 adds a progress bar that looks pretty similar to the yellow bar from the 
very
first release. It also has the page name ("index.html" or whatever) and % 
loaded,
more or less, this is tricky to tell sometimes as content-length is not always 
sent.

Original comment by richard.quirk on 2 Mar 2008 at 8:47

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