Posted by cosmic foo on 11/20/07 11:22

"Jedi Fans" <"news[at]jedifans[--=dot==-]com"> wrote in message
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> cosmic foo wrote:
> > "Jedi Fans" <"news[at]jedifans[--=dot==-]com"> wrote in message
> > news:42e64844$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
> >> 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
> >
> > ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> dont post the same or similar message to multi newsgroups, as it wastes
> peoples time...

why, do you think everyone reads both html groups?

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