Re: [cgiapp] Re: Long running modes - how to display please wait?

2006-05-29 Thread James.Q.L
--- Mark Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-04-27, B Wooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen people use Javascript (changing text on a page), using redirects, etc to handle the case where a please wait screen has to be shown on a submit. Are there best practices on doing this

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Long running modes - how to display please wait?

2006-05-29 Thread Cees Hek
On 5/29/06, James.Q.L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mark Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One pattern to address this was proposed by Randal Schwartz in 1997: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html Simplified: Fork the long running process into the background. This

[cgiapp] Re: Long running modes - how to display please wait?

2006-05-25 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2006-04-27, B Wooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen people use Javascript (changing text on a page), using redirects, etc to handle the case where a please wait screen has to be shown on a submit. Are there best practices on doing this with CGI::Application? One pattern to address

Re: [cgiapp] Re: Long running modes - how to display please wait?

2006-05-25 Thread Timothy Appnel
Has anyone tried using AJAX/JSON in a scenario like this? tim/ -- Timothy Appnel Appnel Solutions http://www.appnel.com/ - Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/