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Provides trivially easy way to notify users that a request is being loaded and processed in the background, so that they know their action was received and the page has not frozen. Just toggle the message (or image or any element) on or off with $.loading() or $('#foo').loading(). The plugin handles creation and positioning and "pulsing" of the message for you. It also provides a 'mask' option to block the UI (at the call level) while the loading message (or image or any element) is running. You can tell it to automatically toggle on ajaxStart/ajaxStop with the 'onAjax' option. You can tell it to automatically terminate after a specified time with the 'max' option. You can tell it to only show if the loading takes longer than a specified time with the 'delay' option. And so on... Think of this as a cleaner, more user-friendly $.blockUI, where the blocking part is optional.
The demo is the most explanatory way to get a feel for this plugin and the options it offers "out of the box". Look at the source for the demo to see how incredibly simple and flexible this is to use. It's also extremely (and easily) extensible.
This is dual licensed MIT and GPL, just like jQuery itself. It is meant to work in recent versions of Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE. Please report bugs if it does not.
