JavaScript should act immediately on user input to mask network latency, which should remove most spinners and loading messages.

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  For most software, interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers.

  Victor says that for most software interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and that the goal is to show rather than to ask. Rauch says JavaScript should act immediately on user input to mask network latency. Both want the user waiting less; one gets there by removing the interaction and the other by making it instantaneous.

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