facebook status bar

Question

Anyone know a good tutorial of how to make the status bar found in the new facebook? the one on the bottom. looks really cool

i was thinking it was written in either ajax or jquery. but not sure.

Answer 1

Here are some useful links/plugins that might help you:

Positioning the footer

Enable drag/drop of things (like applications)

Tooltip (when hover)

And for the interaction with the server (for new events etc.) you might use the AJAX functionality in jQuery:

Answer 2

In order to have it always be in the bottom, that is more of CSS than javascript. I think you would get better answers if you were more specific. For example, I would want the answer to revolve around as to how the chatroom works on facebook. Is the javascript request being sent every second to check for new messages? or is there another protocol being used in order to have instant messages?