To all Thank you to everyone who posted.
I have created a blog-entry showing the results of my tests if you are interested: http://www.baconbutty.com/blog-entry.php?id=46 My conclusion so far:- 1. IE - Comes out best. showModelessDialog gives me what I want, perfectly. No other browser comes near. 2. setTimeout offers the only cross-browser solution (or zero timeout using postMessage), but it requires continuation passing-style programming. 3. Opera had the best implementation of Worker and the HTML 5 progress element (both allowed dynamic updating without continuation passing). 4. Firefox implemented Worker reasonably well. 5. Chrome and Safari were a disaster. Their Worker implementation did not work (Opera did, so I am not clear where the mistake is). Their progress elements could not be updated until the JavaScript function returned (what is the point of that) so no better than setTimeout. Regards Julian -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
