how to load a page while data is streaming??

Hi:

I am trying to learn how I can show data while a page is still loading; ...I have seen this in meta search engines and the like.

Any input is much apreiciated. (an example of what I am talking about is at www.jugalug.com, in the results page)

Thanks
//ryan

I think what you are seeing is actually the effects of a problem. Are you using Netscape or IE to view it? In Netscape, the bottom TABLE has a large number of TRs and TDs, and consequently takes longer to load than the top TABLE. What you could do is place the contents that you wish to display right away in a TABLE by themselves that is above the other TABLE.

If you are referring to the form field that appears to be updating, what they are probably doing is building the page on the server (using server-side scripting). If you look at the source, they specify the HTML for the field, and then simply print out JavaScript after JavaScript that changes the value. So, as the server is finding results, the document gets a new JavaScript written to it and the JavaScripts get written before the results do.