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author | Aaron Ball <nullspoon@oper.io> | 2017-12-02 14:49:46 -0700 |
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committer | Aaron Ball <nullspoon@oper.io> | 2017-12-02 14:49:46 -0700 |
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Moved all posts under src to new posts directory
This allows the src directory to be used for other things (like cgi
code).
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diff --git a/src/Postback_Freezes_Animated_Gifs.adoc b/src/Postback_Freezes_Animated_Gifs.adoc deleted file mode 100644 index 092d181..0000000 --- a/src/Postback_Freezes_Animated_Gifs.adoc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -Postback Freezes Animated Gifs -============================== -:author: Aaron Ball -:email: nullspoon@iohq.net - - -== {doctitle} - -Hello again all, - -<rant>In all my experiences in my life as a geek, I have found few things more -frustrating than developing something for any version of Internet Explorer -(please hold your shouts of agreement for the end). Internet Explorer 5 never -really existed (did the internet exist then even?), Internet Explorer 6 was a -complete atrocity, Internet Explorer 7 I am pretty sure caused the suicide rate -amongst us geeks to go up significantly, and Internet Explorer 8, while better -than its predecessors, only caused a few geeks to become severely dependent on -mind-altering drugs to help them cope with the frustrations of life (or maybe -just web development for IE).</rant> - -You may now cheer... - -Now, down to business. On the topic of Internet Explorer doing things -differently from the rest of the world simply for the sake of it (hey look, -they're taking after Apple), I have recently experienced a very frustrating -problem with animated gifs. Referring to my previous post about the file -uploader, the client I was developing that for wanted an animation icon for the -upload so their customers didn't think the page had frozen. Sounds like a -simple task, no? - -*The problem can be described as this:* When a postback event occurs (ie: -clicking a link or submit button), Internet Explorer freezes all animated gifs -on the page. - -*To explain how I fixed this,* I essentially placed an animated 'rotating -circle' on the page which was hidden until the onSubmit() function was called. -Here's the code for the image while it was hidden. - ----- -<img src="./images/loading.gif" id="loader" style="visibility:hidden;" /> ----- - -Annnd here's the code for the animation problem fix as well as the code that -changes the image visibility. - ----- -function showLoader(){ - //*** Reload the image for IE *** - document.getElementById('loader').src='./images/loader.gif'; - //*** Let's make the image visible *** - document.getElementById('loader').style.visibility = 'visible'; -} ----- - -Category:HTML -Category:Internet_Explorer -Category:Microsoft - - -// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: |