NYCPHP Meetup

[Craig Thomas]

David Mintz wrote:
> This is the topic I always wondered about but was afraid to ask!
> 
> True or false:  You could accomplish this easily if you were doing the
> AJAX thing. Right? Look at the what-its, the readyState property and keep
> the "Please wait..." in your DIV (or whatever) element until your
> readyState == 4

True. AJAX makes the not-a-real-progress indicator coding way easy (no 
background process).  Just show the processing wheel/image what-have you 
while the readyState<>4, then just do a layer swap/close the 
window...whatever.