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Posted by Chris Tomlinson on 07/06/06 17:46
"Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:UoidnRnyUszWpTDZRVnygw@pipex.net...
>> Thanks Brian, that looks interesting. Do you think it would work when
>> the sliced images are contained within horizontal divs? You can see how
>> we are using this at:
>> http://www.superhighstreet.com/George-Street-Richmond/
>
> I looked at your page, but I'm still not quite sure I understand what you
> mean by "horizontal divs". Wait a minute, do you mean that were you to
> take your "highstreet view" and chop it up into a number of individual
> images and then load each of those individually? If so, I don't see any
> reason why it wouldn't work.
Hi Brian, yes that's right -- in fact that *is* what you were looking at,
but we did it so cunningly you couldn't tell. ;) The issue is getting the
divs to load in the right order.
> Be aware that to use JavaScript to control the load order of images means
> that your visitors who don't have JavaScript enabled probably won't see
> anything.
We are already relying on that as it's less than 1% of people now.
> It might be worth reconsidering what you are trying to do. Currently your
> "highstreet image" is 368KB, that's big, so I can understand your wanting
> to do something about it. Even if you ignore the length of time it takes
> to download the image, having the horizontal scroll bar is undesirable.
> Would thumbnail views be better? Click the thumbnail to view the shop
> entrance or
We appreciate your feedback, but don't you feel static thumbnails would
completely lose the virtual 'scroll' along the street that the user can do?
Broadband is only getting more common.
> enter? You could also try changing the jpg to use progressive encoding (in
> my experience this can make a big difference with gif files although IE
> still seems to wait until it has finished loading the jpg before
> displaying it regardless of whether its progressive or not).
They already use progressive which looks very good in Firefox, but we agree
IE doesn't take advantage :(
> I know its not what you asked, but your page took a long time to load. It
Can we ask your connection speed? How long did it take to load roughly?
> might help reduce the load time if you move away from using a table to
> structure the whole page (I'm not saying don't use tables for structure at
> all [although there are plenty who would disagree], but try to avoid
> having a table that contains everything on the form). It would be worth
> your while also working through the page validation errors
> (http://validator.w3.org/). (Sorry, I realise its work in progress and you
> would probably get to these points once you've sorted out what to do with
> the big highstreet image.)
Yep, still in beta but all good points.
What would you suggest instead of the 3 tables on the page? Do these really
add a lot to the load time do you think?
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Thanks,
Me
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