"downloading in progress" message while waiting

[pahl]

I have a webpage that has links to mp3 tunes. When a person clicks on the link a new window is opened and the downloading begins. The downloads can take some time and the person sees nothing and might think that the link is bad or the downloading has stalled. Is there a simple script that will display a "Downloading in progress, please wait" type message while the downloading is in progress?

You can see what I mean and also view the html on the web I am talking about at www.messagesforme.ca/tunes.html

Thnaks for any assistance.

[havik]

When a person clicks on those links a File Download window appears prompting whether you want open or save the file, cancel or get more info. When you hit save here, your browser displays a progress bar for you. Unless I'm not understanding your problem, you don't need a "download in progress" window.

[bigal]

For each link, have a new window popup. Chromeless if you like. in the new window, you want a html file for each mp3, the htm files will look like this:



<OBJECT

ID="mediaPlayer"

CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"

CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/
controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"

STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."

TYPE="application/x-oleobject">

<PARAM NAME="fileName"
VALUE="sound1.mp3">

<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">

<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">

<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">

<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">

</OBJECT>





changing sound1.mp3 to the name of a mp3. so you will have several html files, one for each song. the html file will popup when u click on a lank and bam, song will be streamed. :D