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Grey screen appearing briefly before editor loads
Description
I am seeing a grey screen briefly before the Rapid Editor loads. I only started noticing this in the last few days. Everything is normal otherwise, but it might appear to people on slower connections that something is wrong.
Screenshots
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7d816d80-1105-47fd-af3b-a4e3c147fbe0
Version
2.4.0
What browser are you seeing the problem on? What version are you running?
Version 129.0.6668.10
The OS you're using
MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1
Steps to reproduce
- Go to https://rapideditor.org/.
- Select 'Start Mapping'.
The browser URL at the time you encountered the bug
https://rapideditor.org/edit#map=2.00/0.0/0.0&background=Bing&datasets=fbRoads,msBuildings&disable_features=boundaries
The auto-detected useragent string for your browser (leave blank if you're manually filling this form out)
No response
It's not a bug, it's just because I changed the background color of the document in this commit: 6533802
The reason for the change in background color is to support this drag behavior seen here: https://github.com/facebook/Rapid/pull/1497#issuecomment-2261578596
When the user makes the sidebar too small, we still want to let them see a shadow of it as they drag the resizer handle around - I did that by making the sidebar transparent. The transparent sidebar won't display any map underneath it, it will just show whatever color the document is - so I picked a color that transparent things would show up on top of (i.e. not black or white).
Before this change I think Rapid would just show a black or white screen for the few seconds until the UI is able to start rendering things.
I'm definitely open to changing it if it bothers people - I'm really surprised anyone noticed it.
Gotcha. Will keep this issue option to get feedback. My initial thought was that assets were struggling to load.