[Seaside] popup window

[Cees de Groot]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 04:15, David Farber wrote:
> You know, at least one of the airline reservation sites that I've used will pop up a seperate, small browser window and stream progress information to that window as it searches to match the itenerary I've fed it. Ok, so they obviously have to use javascript in order to open the pop-up window, but I've always been curious as to how they were able to stream the progress information. For some reason I was thinking that such behavior was beyond the capability of javascript.
> 
There are lots of ways to Rome. We use the simplest thing that could
possibly fool the user: an animated GIF. I don't know whether it's
beyond Javascript to show a real progress bar based on information
pulled from the network, but if that it's not possible there's always
the solution of putting a little Java widget in there. And with plain
HTML you can come a long way as well, just refresh some status page
every second...