Posted by Bone Ur on 10/29/07 08:25

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:57:45 GMT
David Mark scribed:

>> You can j/s preload sequentially: ie, not starting the following preload
>> until the previous is finished. I've done that and it works. But a
>> better idea (I think) is just to make a position:absolute;
>> visibility:hidden; div "layer" encompassing all the images which won't
>> show because of the css.
>
> That will mess up the semantics of the page and will look strange when
> style is disabled. For the scriptless approach, it is better to use
> background images.

Background images don't always load as one might wish, though. The
styling-disabled is a valid concern, but despite conventional mythology,
styling is necessary nowadays and anyone who disables it except for testing
is a moron. As for semantics - phffft! Very few pages have correct
semantics, anyway, and a sequential list of links in a "layer" will
certainly not mess them up if they are correct.

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Bone Ur
Cavemen have stronger pheromones.

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