Re: [PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-13 Thread Rainer Müller
Red Wingate wrote: Allmost, after having a quick look at the source i tell you they do it like that: ... loading stuff here ... . page loading here done? JS: document.getElementByid('loading').display='none'; take a look for yourself :-) The idea is great IMHO. But what if someone ha

Re: [PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-09 Thread René Fournier
I guess a better question would be, what is the "best practices" way of showing a "Please wait..." page while a server operation is performed (which could take 5 or 45 seconds), then make the page display the resulting data (via reload, or slow-load, or whatever)? Would love to find an article

Re: [PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-09 Thread Michal Migurski
> When Expedia.com is searching for flights, it displays a page with a > little animated GIF progress bar, then display the results. > > How do they do that? How does the page sit idle until the query is > finished, and then sends a new page with the results? I was thinking > that they might use HT

Re: [PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-09 Thread Red Wingate
Allmost, after having a quick look at the source i tell you they do it like that: ... loading stuff here ... page loading here done? JS: document.getElementByid('loading').display='none'; take a look for yourself :-) James Harrell wrote: Hi Rene, Here's a thought- make your anim

RE: [PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-09 Thread James Harrell
Hi Rene, Here's a thought- make your animated gif that's a "grow-bar" that fills from left to right. Maybe it maxes out at 99% or loops back around to 0 after reaching 100. :) Display this at the top of the screen - but not within a table that is part of the results display. More on why shortly.