I've been searching high and low on Google over the last hour looking for this, but can't seem to find anything. Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms, but I'd think what I'm trying to accomplish is something that's been done before.
What I'm looking to do is delay the action of a click for a set period of time. I have a list of links for download zip archives and when you click on one of those links, I use the BlockUI plugin to show an overlay with a message that tells the user their download will start momentarily. The reason this is done is so that I can fire off an AJAX event that inserts a record into a database for download tracking. Ideally what I'd like to do is fire the AJAX event (which should only take about .2 seconds to run) and then wait for 2 or 3 seconds before unblocking the UI and *then* letting the default action of the click (offering up the zip archive) fire. Any ideas how I might accomplish something like this?
