How to rate-limit clicks on a button to once per minute in Javascript

Question

I have a PHP-based web application that monitors the status of a process and displays a page with that status. Users can click a button on the page to update the status. However

Answer 1

Just a suggestion, but if you're going to go through the trouble to write the code to rate-limit the submit button by using a client-side timer (setTimeout), why not just remove the update button all together, and make the page auto-update at your pre-defined interval?

Here's some sample code in jQuery (since jQuery offers some great cross-browser AJAX support)

    
    
    $(function(){
        // On page load...
        updateStatus();
    })

    function updateStatus(){
        $('#status').load('/url/to/status/display.php');
        setTimeout(updateStatus, 60000) // 60,000 miliseconds = 1 minute
    }