Why in the name of Pizza is the loading animation in the bottom corner? It makes no sense... Please put it back where it's supposed to be
What is the advantage of it being on top? The advantage of it being on the bottom is that it doesn't block usage of links/navigation while it's active.
Then I won't know if something is actually happening when I click a button... People still have slow internet you know
What AJAX call are you making that is giving you errors? Even at "only" 1Mbps, there's no AJAX call that should pass enough data that it would even take 0.1 seconds to transfer on that connection.
If I click a button, and don't see a loading icon, I think it hasn't worked, which happens quite often.
There are very few sites that even show any sort of "status" on AJAX loading. Do you have trouble using Google, Twitter or Facebook since they don't show AJAX status at all? Either way, I'd say it's safe to say that if it hasn't finished in less than a second, it's not going to (if you are getting some sort of error). There should be no AJAX call that takes more than a fraction of a second.
Strange... a thread reply should probably take the longest since it's done a lot of stuff underneath it all. So let me time this one. Edit... it took 358ms (about 1/3 of a second) and had a total network transfer of 1.8KB.
The quote took five seconds, as measured by me. Posting took 3 seconds. This is on my N7. On my laptop, saving this edit was done in ~1 second or less.
Strange. What else is strange is I can see the AJAX loading status thing on my phone and my iPad without any issues as it is now.
Hmm, well I just tried it on my N7 with alerts and it didn't appear at all, even though there was no keyboard.