Posted by rf on 05/29/07 07:31

"windandwaves" <nfrancken@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1180410240.531851.216810@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
> On May 29, 1:59 pm, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> "windandwaves" <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> >http://www.friars.co.nz/listing.php?p=ptc
>>
>> While playing with this I noticed another issue: you reload those images
>> *from the host* on every rollover. I was wondering why my network icon
>> was
>> flashing so much and switched on firebug, noticing to my dismay your page
>> had used over ten megabytes of my bandwidth. Not a page I would visit
>> again.
>> I hope your client has "unlimited" bandwidth :-)

> Hi Richard,
>
> Thank you for your note. I would be very surprised if the above is
> true. I use firebug too, and the images are definitely not loaded on
> every roll-over.

Yes they are. My network icon was flashing because I had my cache turned off
for some testing. With the cach turned off the image is reloaded from the
host on every mouseover.

With the cache turned on the image is still reloaded, but from the cache.

If you don't believe me then switch on firebug, the Net tab, and watch the
requests pile up. There is a network request for *every* mouseover.

http://barefile.com.au/ww.jpg (100K)

Right down the bottom, see 10 megabytes of download? Not that it really
matters I suppose, if it's coming from the cache.

> If you want to inspect the html, the easiest thing
> to use is firebug....

Why make me jump throught hoops to attempt to help you? :-)

--
Richard.

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