The Freak Parade

This is another very nice, simple and flexible Java Script library that serves one purpose only: make it very easy to create busy indicators on your web pages. I haven’t looked at it too closely but it appears to use VML or something to render these things on the fly, rather than use an animated GIF, so you have an amazing amount of control over the shape, size, transparency and color of your resulting busy indicator and in fact can change any of its properties at runtime (not sure why you would, but that isn’t the point )

This one definitely goes in the toolbox.

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Try it Out!

This came from the home page of some startup Jeff Atwood is launching, and I had to share it. I’ve had this feeling before.