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That's brilliant! I always find myself looking at the scroll bar to see how far I've gone, but this is much more convenient.

Are you serious?

The scroll bar isn't enough to tell how much reading is left.

I hope you're missing a </sarc> tag there...

Scrollbars are virtually non-existent on Macs these days. Plus this works well on touch-based devices too. Overall, I like the concept and find it useful as well.

Edit: I'm referring to the reading progress bar concept, not to the loading status referenced in the original post.

Fair enough, and good point on the touch-based devices, I can see how it would be useful for those. I don't use a Mac, so can't comment but same applies.

Scrollbars aren't but they still show on a scroll event (unless I'm mistaken - I'm only using 10.8).

A lot of comments or post-content links/ads disrupts the usefulness of the OS scroll-bar.

I think that's more of a reading progress bar than a website loading bar. Still pretty slick though.