Most of us geeks know and love Gmail. It has a very nice interface and it is an inspiration to constantly improve our own web applications. Today, I set out to create an unobtrusive Gmail like page status message, much like the one shown in the screen shot: [img_assist|nid=1488|title=|desc=|link=none|align=undefined|width=501|height=79] My requirements were simple: Should look like the one used in
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