[OSM-dev] Relation display not working doesn't give any visible feedback

[Tom Hughes]

On 04/12/10 10:52, Wyo wrote:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>> On 04/12/10 09:27, Wyo wrote:
>>
>>> The loading status display I asked for in the previous message isn't
>>> enough, a text explaining the cause of the failure is also needed.
>>
>> Well if we knew the cause of the failure then we'd fix it and there
>> wouldn't be a failure...
>>
> The cause is simple, it times out after 30s most probably because of
> overload.

No it doesn't. Well if it does then it's your browser or OpenLayers 
doing the timeout. There is nothing on the server that will make that 
page timeout after 30s.

> IMO it should be possible to set a event "request failure" or "request
> success" whenever a server request ends. Then it would be possible to
> trigger a control allowing to show a nice text to the user. The control
> could have an option "also show success" so web designer could choose
> between showing nothing/failure/anything.

Well sure OpenLayers could handle these things better, but that's 
something you should probably address on openlayers-dev ;-)

Tom

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