Originally posted by Jason Barker:
Ha, ha! You're right. This would be silly if the user had to sit at their computer and watch it. Actually, the user would get to this point, submit the information and do other tasks at their desk, while keeping an eye on the computer screen. However, the users who choose to sit and wait until this is done will get fired.
Even so, it isn't very user friendly... Seriously, if I had to wait 5-10 minutes and "keep an eye on" the process to complete, I'd be very annoyed.
What is this long process anyway?
...that would be eggregiously bad UI...
...either use Gregg's suggestion of a completion e-mail...
...or provide a status page that users can visit at their own volition to monitor the progress of the operation.
I'll bow out from here.
...trying to do something in a way that the protocol wasn't really intended for...
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The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Originally posted by D Rog:
[QB] Using Ajax is brilliant idea however it's browser dependent. QB]
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“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” - Rich Cook
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Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs. |