OT: Status Page

2002-04-10 Thread Rasoul Hajikhani
Folks, please excuse this off topic thread, but I thought since a lot of you work in creating a informative user experience, some of you may be able to help me. I am trying to create a status page, the kind that shows a horizental status bar that looks to work in real time and changes as events

Re: OT: Status Page

2002-04-10 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi Rasoul, We display a status bar while processing credit card transactions at Turbo10 (http://turbo10.com). The Bank takes 1-5 seconds to respond so in the meantime we show an animated status bar GIF in a pop-up box - when the page is 'onunLoaded' (Javascript event) the

Re: OT: Status Page

2002-04-10 Thread Issac Goldstand
I sometimes use pages with a text INPUT field and javascript to upate it to display status. I'm also planning on releasing a more complex version of that that uses a seperate thread under Apache 2, based on the IPC methods I use for Apache::UploadMeter... Issac Rasoul Hajikhani wrote: