Re: Creating a "Progress" page with CGI

in reply to Creating a "Progress" page with CGI

The cleanest solution I've seen to this problem is the following:

Create two divs on your page. One contains a GIF-89 that has some neat status indicator that repeats. The second contains your data and starts out as display: none;
Immediately render the first div and the beginning of the second div. This way, your user sees something.
As you get results, render them right away so as to keep the connection alive.
After you finish rendering, hide the first and show the second div.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: Creating a "Progress" page with CGI by Celada (Monk) on Dec 06, 2005 at 20:04 UTC
That reminds me of a CGI progress information using Javascript I did a little while ago. dragonchild, your solution is more applicable when you don't have anything specific to say about how you're actually getting along in your pgorewss, but you just want an indicator anyway.	[reply]

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