Re: Someting bothers me about the status indicator

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:45:41AM -0000, Dean Earley wrote:
> > Finally, I don't really see what the problem is since any browser
> > loading a page with images in carries on loading the page content
> > even when some images are slow to load.  Even if the images never
> > load, the rest of the content is readable.
> 
> I assume he was using it through PHP or something similar so it will block
> until it gets a reply or times out.

If his program involves loading N remote URLs in series before he
gets his content then I think he needs to redesign it no matter what
the remote URLs are.