AboutAndrew Hoffman Expertise I can field just about any question within this topic ranging from JavaScript to CSS, the two ingredients of DHTML. I`m very interested in the W3C and its validation rules for HTML, XHTML, and CSS, and enjoy answering questions of this type as well. I detest sleep and respond at all hours of the day or night.
Experience Experience in the area I've been working with DHTML and CSS for 7 years now and build/maintain websites of my own that implement DHTML navigation.
What I'm doing now My contract with Microsoft has ended and I am working for myself once again. Please contact me for any front-end work at antibland@gmail.com
My question is that I have a free PDF ebook on my website that is 1.8 MB in size and it takes a few seconds to load in the browser. Right now I have a .jpg download button with a link to my PDF download. Here is my website link.. http://shenreed.com/index.html and Book 1 is the large PDF
What I would like to do is two things....
1) To be able to show a animated “loading” GIF on the white browser page as the PDF loads so that people know that it’s loading and for it to stop when the page has loaded.
2) Have the option to have direct download pop up, instead of having to go through clicking on “file” and then “save as” routine.
I’ve tried searching the web for an answer but I’m lost with all the different coding. I am somewhat familiar with html and a bit of CSS code and the odd self contained java script as I did build my website. These features would just make things a little more user friendly. Any help would be appreciated,
Regards
John
Answer John,
1) Cannot be done. The white browser page is actually the PDF--there's unfortunately nowhere to put a loading image. There's no workaround for this.
2) Although this question is out of the scope of DHTML, I can point you to an answer in PHP.
You would put this at the very top of your php page. That means, your index.html page would need to be index.php for the above lines to work. Hopefully, your web host provides PHP support. If you don't find success using this method, try searching for answers in the PHP section of this site or elsewhere on a PHP forum.
