When is a form too long and too slow?

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:35:00 -0500

I have a form that is longer than one page (and it can be slow depending on what is submitted) Would it be acceptable design to have a submit button that became disabled (while waiting for the server to respond) with a progress bar inside the button?

use your favourite style changer here

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:41:00 -0500

If your url has variables like action=takeAction then adding checkurl() to the onload of the body tag of your page can change the style of the link that got your user there if its id happens to be (in this case) takeAction It works like a:visited except its only the most recently clicked link.

function gup( name )
{
name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
if( results == null )
    return "";
else
    return results[1];
}
function checkurl() {
var ref = gup('action').toLowerCase();
if (ref) {
    var a = document.getElementById(ref);
    if(a) {
     YAHOO.util.Dom.setStyle(a,'color','#0065b3');
//use your favourite style changer here
        }
    }
}

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When is a form too long and too slow?

use your favourite style changer here