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Let user know it's still processing #20

Open jhveem opened 5 years ago

jhveem commented 5 years ago

When there are more search results than can be seen on the page, it is unclear that FLAIR is still processing. It would be beneficial to have some kind of notice saying that it's in the middle of processing.

mjbriggs commented 5 years ago

As flair is currently set up, the execution web search operation is indicated by a thin blue bar sliding across the top of the page. However, the web page lags when receiving multiple search results, causing the page to freeze or lag. This includes the blue progress bar, so it seems like the search's have stopped loading. Someone who is new to the UI might not even notice the blue bar when a web search occurs, and so they would think that something went wrong, not that FLAIR is just being slow. There are a couple of solutions that come to mind. One would be to change the loading indicator from a blue bar to something a little more visible. This would still have the problem of freezing when the page freezes, but it would be more clear to the user that the search results are still coming in. Another potential fix would be to either change or optimize how search results display during the search operation. There is a lot of visual stuff that is going on in the search stage, and changing that might lead to a clearer experience for the user.