Text effect or paragraph loading

Question

Hello.

I’ve been watching it on several websites. Facebook, Dropbox and various frameworks that use css and js an effect that appears before the text is loaded. I hope you understand. Thank you

Answer 1

This is a technique used in user experience. A great article called The Illusion of Time (The Illusion of Time) explains very well how human perception of time can be "dribbled" using simple features like an animated gif, see the Facebook example below.

Building this resource depends on which framework or library you’re using in your project.

The article Facebook content placeholder (Deconstruction of the Facebook content placeholder) demonstrates how this technique is done deconstructing the same used by Facebook.