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.
jGrowl does look to have sticky - see sample 2 in the demo page:
https://github.com/stanlemon/jGrowl
...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.
We have started using http://boedesign.com/demos/gritter/ and have to say it accomplishes the osx growl feel better than the others listed out of the box.
Here's an Outlook Popup style notification jQuery widget:
There is a pretty nice humanized message one here: http://www.websanova.com/plugins/humanmsg/jquery#websanova
