{"id":115,"date":"2008-08-28T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-08-28T01:25:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T05:25:27","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-see-while-you-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2008\/08\/28\/what-do-you-want-to-see-while-you-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you want to see while you wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"MozChomp!\" src=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/skins\/custom\/images\/mozchomp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"87\" \/>On bugzilla.mozilla.org, when you run a search, if your browser supports &#8220;<a title=\"Definition on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Server_push#HTTP_server_push\" target=\"_blank\">server push<\/a>,&#8221; Bugzilla will show you an interim page while the search runs.\u00c2\u00a0 Currently it shows an animated dino head (left) chomping on bugs, and the text &#8220;Please wait while your bugs are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">munched<\/span> retrieved.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s cute and all, but it&#8217;s kind of getting old.\u00c2\u00a0 And being that the page is entirely a cosmetic thing designed to entertain you while you wait, we should change it out once in a while anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re planning to upgrade Bugzilla tomorrow night, and it&#8217;s the perfect opportunity to spice it up a little.<\/p>\n<p>Gerv&#8217;s got a few ideas over on <a title=\"[Bug 438362] No more munched, please!\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=438362\" target=\"_blank\">bug 438362<\/a>&#8230; a neat javascript backed game where you click on the ants or somesuch.\u00c2\u00a0 If you like it or think you&#8217;d hate it, comment here (go try the mockups on the bug first).<\/p>\n<p>If you have other ideas, or can implement one of the existing ones, feel free to post them on the bug.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a couple ideas, but no artistic skills to implement them&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Mozilla dino standing there waiting for bugs &#8211; <a title=\"PNG image of Buggie's head\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bugzilla.org\/img\/buggie.png\" target=\"_blank\">Buggie<\/a> walks over to him carrying a basket of critters and hands it to him.<\/li>\n<li>Buggie standing there with his hand shielding his eyes from the sun, turning his head back and forth like he&#8217;s looking for something&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe if we have several of these things, it could randomly pick one each time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116\" title=\"Buggie poses (artwork by Dave Shea)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/preview-300x148.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/preview-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/preview.png 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buggie poses for you, courtesy of Dave Shea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On bugzilla.mozilla.org, when you run a search, if your browser supports &#8220;server push,&#8221; Bugzilla will show you an interim page while the search runs.\u00c2\u00a0 Currently it shows an animated dino head (left) chomping on bugs, and the text &#8220;Please wait while your bugs are munched retrieved.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s cute and all, but it&#8217;s kind of getting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2008\/08\/28\/what-do-you-want-to-see-while-you-wait\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What do you want to see while you wait?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugzilla","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}