Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of Zepto.js, of script.aculo.us, and I'm a Ruby on Rails core alumnus. With Amy Hoy I'm building cheerful software, like Noko Time Tracking and Every Time Zone and write books like Retinafy.me. November 14th, 2005 Step 1: Create an element on the page that should be displayed while AJAX Requests are active. I mostly use an IMG element displaying an animated GIF