Posted by Brian Cryer on 07/07/06 11:16

"Chris Tomlinson" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
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> "Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> Two ideas:
>>
>> 1. go with Vincent's suggestion.
>>
>> 2. keep the images in (so you see them in your editor) but have some
>> javascript which runs on page start up which resets each of the images to
>> blank before explicitly loading each one. Sounds daft I know, but it
>> means that the visitor won't have to wait for all the images to load and
>> you can then control the load order AND it means that a visitor without
>> JavaScript enabled will still see the images. (Is that clear?) You may
>> have to play with it to see how practical this is.
>
> This idea is exciting to us. Can you suggest what sort of JS code might
> achieve this?

If you look at my original example
(http://www.cryer.co.uk/resources/javascript/script3.htm), something along
the lines of the code used behind the "reset" button - although resetting to
a blank 1 pixel by 1 pixel white image is probably better than what I've don
on that page. Call that before starting the load.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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