Re: OT: Status Page

[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 progress bar pop-up is closed.

A pop-up is useful in this situation because keyboard/mouse focus
is taken away from the credit card processing screen which reduces the
likelihood of the user pressing submit twice.

Regards,


Nigel

Nigel Hamilton
Turbo10 Metasearch Engine

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 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 happen behind the scenes. EToys had it when confirming a cc sale,
 or expedia has one during the search. Can some one direct me as where
 would I find info in creating one of those pages. are those applets?
 Again, accept my sincere, humble, unreserved, and advance appology.
 Thanks in advance
 -r


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Re: OT: Status Page

[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:

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 happen behind the scenes. EToys had it when confirming a cc sale,
or expedia has one during the search. Can some one direct me as where
would I find info in creating one of those pages. are those applets? 
Again, accept my sincere, humble, unreserved, and advance appology.
Thanks in advance
-r