Patent ID: 7765467

Claim:
A method for facilitating efficient interaction by a user working in a Data View while editing an appearance of data that have been inserted into a Web page, comprising the steps of: (a) tracking any change entered by the user that affects the appearance of the data shown in the Data View, each such change that is entered since one or more previous changes were promulgated to all of the data being included in an entire set of one or more pending changes, the entire set of the one or more pending changes including a last pending change made by the user; (b) displaying the Data View with a change to an appearance of only some of the data that is to be altered by the set of one or more changes and by at least delaying promulgation of the entire set of the one or more pending changes within the Data View, until a predefined period of time elapses after entry of the last pending change was made by the user, and such that the entire set of the one or more pending changes is not reflected in an appearance of all of the data that is to be altered by the set of one or more pending changes within the Data View until after the predefined period of time elapses after entry of the last pending change; (c) after the predefined period of time has elapsed without the user entering a further pending change, promulgating the entire set of one or more pending changes to all of the data that are affected thereby, the step of delaying preventing a change of all of the data from being made immediately after the user has entered the change, to avoid delaying entry of successive changes by the user while each immediately successive change is promulgated to the data; and enabling the user to cancel promulgating the set of one or more changes to the data, and restoring the appearance of the data to that before the entire set of one or more changes began to promulgate to the data.