Re: setting cursor to wait document-wide

"jshanman" <jcshanks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1138722903.326283.5450@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> personally, If a website told me to wait with a "wait" cursor, it would
> annoy me. Why not just have an animated message somewhere in the
> middle of the screen that says "Processing..." or something. Include a
> cancel button that returns to your application if it may take more then
> 5-10 seconds.

OK, but one of the operations I want to show a wait state for is page
redirection. AJAX calls such as updating data are very fast, but new page
requests (which may or may not come from back from an AJAX request) are
relatively slow. When I update the page to show a wait state element before
it redirects, I now have that element visible when the user navigates
backward, which is about as acceptable as preventing backwards navigation in
the first place.

I know some people are just going to point out that this post shows that I
obviously don't know what I'm doing; yes, I'm still relatively new at this
but please cut me a little slack (not you, jshanman). My goal is to give the
user a "fast" response to say immediately "yes I'm doing something" on any
action, regardless of how long the server takes. I think it will really
improve user perception of the application's responsiveness. Since I have a
library of controls, the more globally I approach this problem the better.

Paul
Received on Tue Feb 7 21:28:55 2006