the throbber is an "animated icon that notifies the user that an operation is taking place in the background, such as when an application is loading or a Web page is downloading." "Typically a ...

All of this is to say, the spinning-loading wheel that appears on computers is unbelievably called a ‘throbber’. According to the PCMag encyclopaedia, a throbber is: “An animated icon that ...

The new Google Messages icon is now available on the web with a rather nice animated splash screen. Like Gmail, Messages is one of the few Google apps to feature an animated splash screen for its ...