Psuedo Progress Bar

[koray]

Does anyone know of a way to display a "Loading.." graphic progress bar as soon as the upload form is submitted? Not necessarily to track the progress of the upload but to simply show the user that it is in progress? I have been looking for quite sometime and have not found a simple elegant way of achieving it.

I am also interested in finding out how you can cancel an upload that is in progress, a cancel button.

Any help/direction is appreciated

[AstroTeg]

First page launches a pop up window to show an animated GIF. Must do a pop up since IE chokes and stops all GIF animations when asked to do something else on the page.

When the data gets submitted, your 2nd page will load. Have that page run JavaScript to close the pop up window you opened.

As for cancelling, the user can click stop or go to another web page. I don't know if JavaScript can interact with the browser and issue a "stop", but in theory, you could add a link to the pop up to direct the user to a different page in the main window which should stop the upload (in theory, of course).