Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-18 Thread bander
It looks great on my system now. I think I'll put it into my app. Thanks for the change. malsup wrote: Well, I couldn't get it under 1K, but it's under 2! (packed) I've made the following changes to blockUI: - ghosting is not performed on FF/Linux (can someone test this?) -- View

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-04 Thread Mike Alsup
since blockUI is generally a very useful thing i'd like to propose a fairly simple workaround: just don't do the blending when firefox/linux is detected - only display the popup. @bander: Thanks for the feedback. 3 seconds is an interesting value because that's exactly how long the server

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-04 Thread Sam Collett
On 04/01/07, Mike Alsup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since blockUI is generally a very useful thing i'd like to propose a fairly simple workaround: just don't do the blending when firefox/linux is detected - only display the popup. @bander: Thanks for the feedback. 3 seconds is an

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-04 Thread Mike Alsup
Perhaps a better option would be for the overlay to use the same background (image or colour) as the page? The effect would be the same as having a page with only the loading message on it. I think that would be rather jarring visually. The page should remain visible, just not usable. For

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-04 Thread Mike Alsup
I think that's just getting too fancy for this plugin. This is meant to be a very low overhead solution and I'd like to get the size down to 1K if possible. Well, I couldn't get it under 1K, but it's under 2! (packed) I've made the following changes to blockUI: - ghosting is not performed

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-03 Thread Klaus Hartl
Yehuda Katz schrieb: Mike, It almost certainly would require dimensions.js. That said, I wouldn't mind. I suspect that dimensions.js will become a pretty universally used plugin in the near future. It adds some nice cross-browser stuff that's really frequently used, and it's pretty

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-03 Thread moe
yep. blockUI is indeed slow on linux. not as slow as i initally stated (my machine was probably busy with something) but there is about 3 seconds delay before anything happens. unfortunately that's not a specific fault of blockUI but a general problem with alpha transparency under linux. alpha

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Dan Atkinson
This looks really cool! I wonder if anyone has something like this which temporarily ghosts specific elements for a period of time at all, instead of entire pages? Cheers, Dan Atkinson AHeimlich wrote: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/ might interest you. Happy New Year! --Aaron

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Christopher Jordan
I can't remember who (sorry), but someone created a simple disable UI plug-in. It allows for a message like (please wait). You should be able to search the archives for it. It wasn't but a week or so ago that the thread was posted. Cheers, Chris Dan Atkinson wrote: This looks really cool!

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Yehuda Katz
Yep. The first response to the thread linked to it: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/ It occurs to me that it would be cool if you could constrain the UI blocking to a specific element. Mike? -- Yehuda On 1/2/07, Christopher Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't remember who (sorry),

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Mike Alsup
It occurs to me that it would be cool if you could constrain the UI blocking to a specific element. Mike? I'll look into it, but it may add a dependency on the dimensions plugin. ___ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread moe
just a word of warning, blockUI causes 100% cpu-load on firefox2/linux (jumpy mouse cursor and all) and it takes about 10 seconds for the please wait-overlay to appear while the desktop is basically frozen. can anyone reproduce that? (i just clicked on some of the test-buttons, happens every

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Yehuda Katz
Mike, It almost certainly would require dimensions.js. That said, I wouldn't mind. I suspect that dimensions.js will become a pretty universally used plugin in the near future. It adds some nice cross-browser stuff that's really frequently used, and it's pretty small. At this point, I would say

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Mike Alsup
just a word of warning, blockUI causes 100% cpu-load on firefox2/linux (jumpy mouse cursor and all) and it takes about 10 seconds for the please wait-overlay to appear while the desktop is basically frozen. can anyone reproduce that? (i just clicked on some of the test-buttons, happens

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread Mike Alsup
can anyone reproduce that? (i just clicked on some of the test-buttons, happens every time). Moe, How does your cpu do just navigating to the wait page: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/wait.php ___ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread moe
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:05:28PM -0500, Mike Alsup wrote: can anyone reproduce that? (i just clicked on some of the test-buttons, happens every time). Moe, How does your cpu do just navigating to the wait page: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/wait.php just normal, no spike.

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-02 Thread moe
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:20:04PM -0500, Mike Alsup wrote: just a word of warning, blockUI causes 100% cpu-load on firefox2/linux (jumpy mouse cursor and all) and it takes about 10 seconds for the please wait-overlay to appear while the desktop is basically frozen. can anyone reproduce

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-01 Thread Aaron Heimlich
http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/ might interest you. Happy New Year! --Aaron On 12/31/06, Mungbeans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where there is a good tutorial on coding a Please wait.. sign to appear in the middle of the page whenever ajax commands are being processed?

Re: [jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2007-01-01 Thread Mungbeans
AHeimlich wrote: http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/ might interest you. Very nice! Two lines of code and my Please wait.. message was displaying like a dream. Happy New Year to everyone! -- View this message in context:

[jQuery] Please wait.. tutorial

2006-12-31 Thread Mungbeans
Does anyone know where there is a good tutorial on coding a Please wait.. sign to appear in the middle of the page whenever ajax commands are being processed? I've tried, but so far haven't had much success. -- View this message in context: