I use this jQuery code to set the mouse pointer to its busy state (hourglass) during an Ajax call... $('body').css('cursor', 'wait'); and this corresponding code to set it back to normal... $('...

I have an application that takes a couple of seconds to run. Is it possible to make the mouse with the busy icon while the app is processing?

I am having issues displaying a wait cursor in my application. Whenever the mouse is above a panel that defines its own cursor, the wait cursor does not appear. If a panel does not change the curso...

Doesn't seem to be covered in the books Ive looked at.

When does OS X decide to give your app a spinning beach ball? What can you do when programming an application to avoid this?

Can anyone give me a scenario where they think busy cursors are justified? I feel like they're always a bad idea from a user's perspective. Clarification: by busy cursors, I mean when the user can ...