Backgroundrb devel - Dec 2006 - Progress update for non-JavaScript users

Hi there,

I''m running BackgrounDRb for importing some large files into our
system. It''s
very nice and we''re able to use a simple JavaScript call to
periodically
provide progress messages to the user and, ultimately, success or failure 
messages.

How are people relaying progress and/or results messages back to users who 
don''t have JavaScript enabled?

Pretty much the only solution I can think of is to, on each request, check if 
the current user has an import going on and, if so, fetch the status and 
display it somewhere. Is this how most people are doing it? Or am I missing 
something obvious? Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Mark

This is tangential to the topic, but under what circumstances are we  
to bother with the few Javascript impaired?

More on topic, what happens when an iframe has a <meta http- 
equiv="refresh" content="5">?

pmark






On Dec 27, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Mark Somerville wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I''m running BackgrounDRb for importing some large files into our  
> system. It''s
> very nice and we''re able to use a simple JavaScript call to  
> periodically
> provide progress messages to the user and, ultimately, success or  
> failure
> messages.
>
> How are people relaying progress and/or results messages back to  
> users who
> don''t have JavaScript enabled?
>
> Pretty much the only solution I can think of is to, on each  
> request, check if
> the current user has an import going on and, if so, fetch the  
> status and
> display it somewhere. Is this how most people are doing it? Or am I  
> missing
> something obvious? Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Mark
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You''ll probably never run into a Javascript-impaired browser, but
you''ll find that a lot of your users (especially those who are
security-minded) will be running Javascript-DISabled browsers.  Note
the popularity of the Firefox plugin noscript:
http://www.noscript.net/whats

On 12/27/06, P. Mark Anderson <mark at martianrover.com>
wrote:
> This is tangential to the topic, but under what circumstances are we
> to bother with the few Javascript impaired?
>
> More on topic, what happens when an iframe has a <meta http-
> equiv="refresh" content="5">?
>
> pmark
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Mark Somerville wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I''m running BackgrounDRb for importing some large files into
our
> > system. It''s
> > very nice and we''re able to use a simple JavaScript call to
> > periodically
> > provide progress messages to the user and, ultimately, success or
> > failure
> > messages.
> >
> > How are people relaying progress and/or results messages back to
> > users who
> > don''t have JavaScript enabled?
> >
> > Pretty much the only solution I can think of is to, on each
> > request, check if
> > the current user has an import going on and, if so, fetch the
> > status and
> > display it somewhere. Is this how most people are doing it? Or am I
> > missing
> > something obvious? Any thoughts appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Mark
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> > Backgroundrb-devel at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/backgroundrb-devel
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