June 06, 2006
AjaxLoad: Activity Image Generator
If you are developing Ajax-based web applications then you are no doubt needing to display activity to the user when they click on a button or page widget. This is because without this feedback there is nothing to indicate to the user that anything is actually happening. For example you could have a button called “Save” that uses an Ajax message to save the current data back to the server and waits of a confirmation from the server. If no visual feedback is provided then the user has no idea if anything is happening until the browser receives the final response from the server. Therefore we need some sort of animation to indicate that the browser has not crashed and that something has happened, hello AjaxLoad. AjaxLoad is a simple web application that given a foreground and background colour will create an animated GIF image that you can display to a user (such as the image below).
There is a reasonable number of different styles to choose from so you should find something that will meet your needs
Links
AjaxLoad Site
