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Posted by Jedi Fans on 12/21/09 11:22
cosmic foo wrote:
> I have a page with about 100 images of about 10k each.
> where a typical img tag looks like this,
> <img src="item001.jpg" height="70" alt="" onMouseOver="showPic(this)"
> border="0">
> Not all the images need to be viewed at once, depending on what category is
> selected, only about 10 images are seen at any one time.
> I hide and show categories of images by setting a div container
> display:none/block or visibility:hidden/visible.
>
> Even though the images are cached on the client, when the page loads in ie,
> there is still a few seconds delay while it counts down until there are no
> items remaining.
> In firefox there is the same delay but instead of counting down it just says
> 'waiting for..'
>
> From what i understand, the way to get around this delay when loading is not
> to set the src of the image tags until later, when the images need to be
> viewed (using javascript).
> That's not a problem and i have tried it, and it works, but now (for some
> reason) the browser forgets that the images have been cached whenever the
> user returns to the site, and has to download the images from the server,
> the first time a particular category of images is viewed.
> This, i presume, is happening because the src attribute is no longer
> hard-coded in the source, and the browser cannot associate an entry in the
> cache with the src of an image that is set via javascript?
>
> So it looks like the only solution may be to generate the html on the fly,
> when it is needed, with the src intact, or to use frames to get the html
> when it is needed.
>
> Am i missing something here?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
please dont cross post
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