Time Nick Message 03:55 osmoze hi #koha 09:21 kados morning owen 09:21 owen Hi 09:21 dewey salut, owen 09:58 thd kados: are you still there? 10:27 thd owen: are you there? 10:35 thd kados: are you back from breakfast? 10:40 owen thd: is there something I can help with? 10:40 thd owen: yes 10:41 thd owen: would the standby attribute of an object element work for Perl code? 10:42 owen I don't even know what you're talking about :) 10:42 thd I want <object classid="myscript.pl" standby="Please Wait While Searching ..."><br />Object failed to load.</object> without having the object fail every time. 10:43 thd owen: the record editor displays a wait while loading message but that uses JavaScript. 10:44 thd owen: I wanted a language independent method of doing something similar. 10:44 owen Can you tell me more about what you're trying to do? 10:46 thd owen: I have a search of remote targets and want to display a message while the targets are being searched and results are being parsed so the user does not have the impression that nothing is happening 10:47 owen And you don't want to use Javascript? 10:48 thd owen: I always want alternatives to JavaScript but everything must at least work with no message if the user has no JavaScript 10:49 owen So the user is clicking a button, and you want a wait message to appear while the user waits for the next page to load? 10:49 thd owen: so if you have a JavaScript solution which will all a non-JavaScript client to function I would be pleased to know 10:49 thd exactly 10:52 thd owen: if I use onSubmit for the form will the results page still load when the client does not have JavaScript? 10:54 owen Yes. You can have the onsubmit call the function to both submit the form and display a waiting message. <input type="submit" onsubmit="myFunction(); return false;"> 10:54 owen The 'return false' will prevent the form from submitting on its own, leaving it to the javascript to do the submit (this is used in form validation, for instance). 10:55 owen But if the form has a valid action and method, those with javascript turned off will just submit the form. 10:57 thd owen: would adding onLoad to the body element kill the waiting message? How does the waiting message know to go away when the page created by Perl is loaded?