{"id":356,"date":"2008-05-19T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/?p=356"},"modified":"2019-11-28T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:34:28","slug":"google-mail-has-a-progress-indicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/google-mail-has-a-progress-indicator","title":{"rendered":"Google Mail has a Progress Indicator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.screencast.com\/media\/efa6e7e8-0af8-436b-bde9-ee25f4c275e1_d09dc1a3-2dd8-4878-a5ec-f1f0f54dc430_static_0_0_00000011.png\" width=\"675\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only a small post, but I just signed in to Google Mail and received a loading bar progress indicator.<\/p>\n<p>No need to stop the press, but it&#8217;s a whole lot more useful than the old &#8220;Loading&#8230;&#8221; message.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they do the same with file attachment uploads as well. 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