To make this HTML 4 compliant and cleaner:
<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout( function(){ location.reload(true) }, 2500 );
</script>
Note that you do not need to re-call the reload function, as the act of
reloading the page will unload any such timeout you make.
If you're progressively writing the response, one way to make a
progress bar is to use CSS to progressively overlap longer and longer
elements on top of one another. For example (untested):
<style type="text/css">
.progressbounds, .progressbar {
position:absolute;
height:1em;
top: 50%; margin-top:-0.5em
left: 20%;
}
.progressbounds {
width:60%;
margin:0 auto;
border:1px solid black;
}
.progressbar {
background:green;
color:white;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:80%;
text-align:center;
overflow:hidden
}
</style>
<div class="progressbounds"></div>
...
<div class="progressbar" style="width:10%">10%</div>
...
<div class="progressbar" style="width:25%">25%</div>
...
<div class="progressbar" style="width:50%">50%</div>
...
<div class="progressbar" style="width:80%">80%</div>
...
<div class="progressbar" style="width:100%">DONE</div>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="
http://phrogz.net/JS/FindRule2_js.txt"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//Hide the progress bar in 10 seconds
setTimeout( function(){
FindRule2( '.progressbounds' ).style.display='none';
FindRule2( '.progressbar' ).style.display='none';
}, 10 * 1000 );
</script>
If you're not writing the page but want to show progress of a
server-task, you'll need to use a cross-browser XMLHTTP library like
XHConn (
http://xkr.us/code/javascript/XHConn/ ) to repeatedly make
client-server queries to get the progress, and then just use JS to
manipulate the DOM to change the width of your progress bar.
