Posted by Brian Cryer on 07/06/06 11:28

"Chris Tomlinson" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
news:G44rg.97072$wl.13343@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi, is there any way to specify the sequence in which images load on a web
> page?
>
> More specifically, here is what we need to achieve:
>
> Image1 starts loading first and the browser does not continue through the
> HTML until Image1 has loaded COMPLETELY. When Image1 is done, Image2
> BEGINS loading. When Image2 is 100% done, only then does Image 3 begin...
> and so on...
>
> Anyone able to offer a way to do this? Some sort of browser "Pause"
> command is the ideal solution, which would pause the loading of HTML until
> the current command has completed, and THEN move on to the next 'chunk' of
> HTML.

I experimented with this a while back, take a look at
http://www.cryer.co.uk/resources/javascript/script3.htm.

The bottom line is that you can do it, but you have to use JavaScript. My
advice would be not to go that route unless you have a very good reason for
it.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

[Back to original message]