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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:02:51 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Zend Developer Zone:  AJAX Chat Tutorial Part 7 : Usability Improvements]]></title>
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted <a href="http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1580">part seven</a> of their series covering the development of an Ajax chat application. This time,. they're focusing on some of the final touches - usability improvements.
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To start we need to make the chat messages automatically refresh at fixed intervals without requiring user input. We will also add a small message to let the user know when a background request is active. To finish up we remove the necessity of using the "Say It!" button to submit new chat messages.
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They <a href="http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1580">show how</a> to make the chat window refresh at an interval (rather than manually), how to have the application tell the user it's doing something (like "loading"), and adding a keypress event to handle the user pressing the enter key to send off their message. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:38:00 -0600</pubDate>
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