Best jQuery Status Message Plugin?

Question

What is the best jQuery status message plugin?

I like jGrowl and Purr, but jGrowl doesn't have the feature to remain sticky (not close automatially) and Purr doesn't seem to work right in IE 6.

I would like to show messages like... the site is about to go down for maintenance, your such and such job has completed, and stuff like that.

Answer 1

jGrowl does look to have sticky - see sample 2 in the demo page:

http://stanlemon.net/projects/jgrowl.html#samples

...ah - or did you mean after the page has reloaded?

I would then handle this on the server side - i.e. include a sitedown.js that triggers the growl notice each time any page is visited.

Answer 2

Here's an Outlook Popup style notification jQuery widget:

• jQuery.UI Messenger\Outlook like message notification Widget

• Demo

Answer 3

I really like this humanmessage plugin. You can customize it to hang around longer and change the appearance, etc --

http://code.google.com/p/humanmsg/

Answer 4

We found following simple code from west-wind very helpful in our project.

http://www.beyondweblogs.com/post/Display-Fancy-Status-Message-using-JQuery.aspx