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
nce, don't put your grow-bar inside a table unless it's completed before issuing the long-running query. Hope this helps, james -Original Message- From: René Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:35 PM To: php Subject: [PHP] Expedia.com Whe

RE: [PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-09 Thread James Harrell
been written. Hence, don't put your grow-bar inside a table unless it's completed before issuing the long-running query. Hope this helps, james >-Original Message- >From: René Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:35 PM >

[PHP] Expedia.com

2004-06-09 Thread René Fournier
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 HTTP-REFRE