The busy_ajax from ssoroka

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All projects can benefit by having a simple ajax spinner that follows the mouse when ajax calls are being made by the browser in the background. Gives the user a better experience, and saves you from coding it into every "ajaxified" view. This supports prototype only; anyone interested in a jquery version?

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BusyAjax v1.1
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Description
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All projects can benefit by having a simple ajax spinner that follows the mouse when ajax calls are being made by the browser in the background. Gives the user a better experience, and saves you from coding it into every "ajaxified" view.

Repo is http://github.com/ssoroka/busy_ajax/tree/master

Usage
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script/plugin install git://github.com/ssoroka/busy_ajax.git

in your document <head> put <%= javascript_include_tag 'busy_ajax' %>

That's it!!

If you had a pre-v0.2 copy of the project, You no longer need <%= busy_ajax %> in your project.

New in v1.1
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- bug was causing spinner to never be displayed. :(  You'd think I would have caught that sooner.

New in v1.0
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- made BusyAjaxClass, moved everything there. Now plays nice in global namespace.
- renamed busy_on() and busy_off() to enable() and disable() methods of BusyAjaxClass. 
  Accessible through busy_ajax.enable(); or busy_ajax.disable();

New in v0.3
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- Moved project to github. :)

New in v0.2
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- New busy_off(); and busy_on(); javascript methods to turn the busy indicator on and off dynamically.
An RJS example of that is:
	page.call 'busy_off'

- busy_ajax method is removed from layout, div is now added dynamically with javascript, very unobtrusive!

- Generally much cleaner.

Written by
Steven Soroka
http://blog.stevensoroka.ca

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