[Proto-Scripty] Silly Question

2011-10-11 Thread nelian
I am somewhat new to AJAX, but one thing that I have not touch upon is the following - When my App is making an AJAX call, from the users perspective it seems to be doing nothing, how does one go about freezing the page (Not sure what else to call it) and indicate to the user that something is

[Proto-Scripty] Re: Silly Question

2011-10-11 Thread T.J. Crowder
On Oct 11, 12:04 am, nelian i...@myskills.co.za wrote: I am somewhat new to AJAX, but one thing that I have not touch upon is the following - When my App is making an AJAX call, from the users perspective it seems to be doing nothing, how does one go about freezing the page (Not sure what

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Silly Question

2011-10-11 Thread Richard Quadling
On 11 October 2011 00:04, nelian i...@myskills.co.za wrote: I am somewhat new to AJAX, but one thing that I have not touch upon is the following - When my App is making an AJAX call, from the users perspective it seems to be doing nothing, how does one go about freezing the page (Not sure

Re: [Proto-Scripty] Silly Question

2011-10-11 Thread Phil Petree
I'm with you Richard. I have a hidden div that loads the spinner and in the AJAX onCreate I disable the form and unhide the div while in the onComplete I hide the div and enable the form. What I have found is that if the AJAX call starts and completes quickly then the spinner never gets

[Proto-Scripty] method ON vs OBSERVE

2011-10-11 Thread Miguel Beltran R.
Using prototype 1.7 I try to figure what is better, the new ON method or OBSERVE method but the only thing I found is that ON is better if you wish use an CSS selector and/or stopObserve am I correct? or observe is going to be deprecated? -- Lo bueno