{"id":109148,"date":"2014-09-08T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=109148"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:59:15","slug":"what-do-fnb-and-microsoft-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/109148-what-do-fnb-and-microsoft-have-in-common.html","title":{"rendered":"What do FNB and Microsoft have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First National Bank (FNB) has joined Microsoft at the\u00a0receiving end of geeky jokes about progress bars, thanks to a video poking fun at the loading bar used on FNB\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>In a bit of well-received techie webcast\u00a0comedy, one Graeme Pyle has uploaded a video to YouTube which exposes the FNB website loading bar for the innocuous falsehood it is.<\/p>\n<p>The video is also somewhat educational \u2014\u00a0albeit at the expense of FNB\u2019s web team \u2014\u00a0especially for those who have never used Google Chrome to step through JavaScript.<\/p>\n<p>From reading the comments on his video, activity indicator design is actually quite serious business, though we\u2019re not quite sure where it ranks on the trollbait scale of \u201chow much better is Lisp and\/or Erlang than Python\u201d to \u201cVi rules, Emacs drools\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gpBWwl-Ngak\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We asked FNB about the video and Mark Appalsamy, head of sales at FNB Digital Banking, confirmed that the progress bar is merely meant to indicate that there is activity, but does not represent the actual point-in-time progress of the activity.<\/p>\n<p>Why not just use a spinning wheel indicator rather than a progress bar?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFNB opted to put a percentage indicator as it is a well known and widely understood graphic that people can relate to,\u201d said Appalsamy. \u201cIt helps people to understand that something is happening, or being processed in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More SA website news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/71810-free-state-online-website-down.html\"><strong>Free State Online website down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/108338-biggest-mobile-websites-in-south-africa-2.html\"><strong>Biggest mobile websites in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/107304-it-guy-hijacks-website-blackmails-client-in-sa.html\"><strong>IT guy hijacks website, blackmails client in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/106407-bitcoin-coming-to-thousands-of-sa-websites.html\"><strong>Bitcoin coming to thousands of SA websites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103879-sas-top-websites-then-and-now.html\"><strong>SA\u2019s top websites \u2013 then and now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress bars. 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