30
11
2007
Totally useless ‘ajax’ ‘loading’ image in the address bar as a spinning thing
Posted by: Ori Pekelman in ajax, javascriptWelcome to probably the most useless blog post on the web.
Now you can happily animate stuff in the address bar (do you remember the nineties and nice status bar animations ? 
) .
The beautiful online demo can be found here : Demo of animated address bar
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JavaScript:
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// Configure :
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var TextBefore=' ... Loading ... ';
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// End configuration
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var AddressBarLoaderTimeOut;
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var OriginalLocationHash = document.location.hash; // so we can restore original url
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function loc_hash(a){
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document.location.hash =TextBefore+a;
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}
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function spinStart(){
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AddressBarLoaderTimeOut=setTimeout("spinStart()",100);
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loc_hash("|");
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loc_hash("/");
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loc_hash("-");
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loc_hash("");
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loc_hash("|");
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loc_hash("/");
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loc_hash("-");
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}
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function spinStop(){
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document.location.hash=OriginalLocationHash;
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clearTimeout(AddressBarLoaderTimeOut) ;
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}
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// -->
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</script>
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</head>
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<h1>Totally usesless 'ajax' 'loading' image in the address bar as a spinning thing</h1>
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<div style="margin:100px;height:100px;width:100px; background-color:#333;font-size:18;color:white;" onclick="spinStart();">Click on me to start address bar ajax loader</div>
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<div style="margin:100px;height:100px;width:100px; background-color:#333;font-size:18;color:white;" onclick="spinStop();">Click on me to stop</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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