show 'loading' text/icon while external page gets loaded in phonegap, html5 - android

In a phonegap-android application i want to open an external link within the application.
For this i used a plugin childBrowser and it works fine.
But the external link is taking time to load for which i want to show a wait/loading message.
I also tried to open the external link through ajax-call, updating the div with the response page. and until reponse is not received i am showing a loading message but the problem with this approach is that page loses its styles and other structure.
I guess this is because i am putting entire external page inside the div tag which cannot render the entire page as the browser can do it.
Code snippet looks like-
<script type="text/javascript">
function loadPage(url) {
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
// Callback function when XMLHttpRequest is ready
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function(){
if (xmlhttp.readyState === 4){
if (xmlhttp.status === 200) {
document.getElementById('container').innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET", url , true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
How can i achieve this, can I override childBrowser?
Also
if i want to open the page in applications' web view then how can i achieve the same for web-view.
EDIT: As per Same origin policy one cannot call to a outside domain using xhr request.
Okay understood. i checked in browser and got expected error: 'XMLHttpRequest cannot load'
But then how does it shows/opens the url in mobile?
Ofcourse the page is not fully functional and thats my original issue.
i would post this as a separate question, but its related to my original question
Thanx.
Any hints/suggestions would be great.

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