The biggest impetus is MSIE's early onload bug, so while this trick supports more browsers, it still doesn't support the one you want it to. I hacked up David

The biggest impetus is MSIE's early onload bug, so while this trick supports more browsers, it still doesn't support the one you want it to. I hacked up David Baron's demonstration so you can see it for yourself: http://geocar.sdf1.org/zero-timeout.html http://geocar.sdf1.org/zero-timeout.html