Posted by cosmic foo on 11/19/65 11:22

"Jedi Fans" <"news[at]jedifans[--=dot==-]com"> wrote in message
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> 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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