http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joestagner/archive/2006/10/20/animated-gifs-for-your-updateprogress-control.aspxMS AJAX developers need to be able to tell their users when the browser is waiting for a response from a network call. Usually the text message is accompanied an animated .GIF like this one. Here is a cool web site that lets you just choose youren-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joestagner/archive/2006/10/20/animated-gifs-for-your-updateprogress-control.aspx#850043Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:20:48 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:850043Michiel<p>See <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.napyfab.com/ajax-indicators/">http://www.napyfab.com/ajax-indicators/</a> for more examples of animations.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=850043" width="1" height="1">