Yesterday I found a php class for displaying a progressbar while the server is busy. I edited the class so that it is cross browser and so that you don't need absolute positions to positions it. There is one anomoly with it and all php progress bars, IE [Internet Explorer] does not allow flushing of data if done insie of a table tr….very strange. I have a demo version here. I needed this for an bulk email app that I wrote and it really works well in that context.