[Javascript] An image loader nearly working...

[Troy III Ajnej]

I've seen the script and the page (IE) the image starts to load emediately 
and it's way to havy.
The script also, it is expanding more than human attentinon can handle and 
it is overloading the page.
Wright now I'm on dialup, and it took me more time to load than to read your 
script.

You will have to keep it as simple as possible. no more than few lines of 
script.
You should tell the visitor how big the image is.
and you can get it  with: this.filesize
You should put this.onreadystatechange= inline with the IMG tag to fire the 
check function
and check that state 'readyState' after the ready state check has returned 
'complete'
your script is allowed to show the image you have declared 'hidden' and all 
is done in few lines of script.


>From: Guillaume <javascript at webdesignofficina.com>
>Reply-To: "\[JavaScript List\]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>Subject: [Javascript] An image loader nearly working...
>Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:06:30 +0200
>
>Troy and Hakan,
>
>thanks for both of you for your answers.
>I do understand your comments about this version of the script.
>If you don't mind looking at the very last version of the script 
><http://www.hablablow.com/devX/loadTest2/testXXX7.htm> we have built with 
>Roger Roelofs
>The previous version we were talking about was my missed attempt to bring 
>up a simple script... I understand now where i failed... Thanks to the work 
>of Roger, we came up with another solution... It is pretty close to the 
>goal we want to reach but we are still facing some downsides: the script 
>does not run on Ie and the loading layer does not fire instantly when the 
>page is loaded...
>If we could join hands on this, maybie something nice will show up.
>
>Thank you for your interest on this.
>
>Regards.
>
>Guillaume.
>
>>I have to agree with Hakan,
>>the 'get elements by tag name' will return a collection of the specified 
>>tag that doesn't have any directly connected properties with that tag 
>>type.
>>The only chance that this script will work is, only if you have just one 
>>IMG in the coll, so the script returns entity not the collection and you 
>>will be able to get the 'complete' property of it.
>>otherwise, this script is broken, nonworking for all other cases where 
>>you've inserted more than one image inside the 'content' container.
>>If this is the case, non of the browsers will do the magic. You will get 
>>error containing somethin like can't get complete property from the 
>>collection
>>
>>regards
>>
>>
>>>From: Hakan <hakan at backbase.com>
>>>Reply-To: "\[JavaScript List\]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>>Subject: Re: [Javascript] An image loader working in FF but not in 
>>>Opera,Safari...
>>>Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:01:16 +0200
>>>
>>>Hi Guillaume,
>>>
>>>Two things:
>>>
>>> >     var img = content.getElementsByTagName("img");
>>> >
>>> >     if ( img.complete ) {
>>>
>>>getElementsByTagName returns an array with the nodes matching the tag 
>>>name. This array doesn't have a "complete"-property, and I'm guessing 
>>>that the only reason this "works" in Firefox is because it will get here 
>>>on window load and, since both conditions hide the loading div, it gets 
>>>hidden.
>>>
>>> > window.onload = checkDone;
>>>
>>>When this triggers, images should already have been loaded.
>>>
>>>I'm sorry, but this script seems to do nothing.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>H
>>>
>>>Guillaume wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi list,
>>>>
>>>>I've managed to build with Roger Roelofs an image preloading script.
>>>>It's working just fine in Firefox, but Safari and Opera won't catch the 
>>>>"loading image..." process, and just display the image when the page is 
>>>>loaded.
>>>>Here is the inline script:
>>>>
>>>><script type="text/javascript">
>>>>
>>>>loader += '<div id="loader" style="display:block;"><p>Loading 
>>>>data...<p/></div>';
>>>>
>>>>document.write(loader);
>>>>
>>>></script>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>><script type="text/javascript">
>>>>
>>>>function checkDone() {
>>>>
>>>>     var content = document.getElementById("content");
>>>>
>>>>     var img = content.getElementsByTagName("img");
>>>>
>>>>     if ( img.complete ) {
>>>>
>>>>         document.getElementById('loader').style.display = 'none';
>>>>
>>>>     } else {
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         document.getElementById('loader').style.display = 'none';
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             }
>>>>
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>window.onload = checkDone;
>>>>
>>>></script>
>>>>
>>>>I have setup a test page to understand what's the script about. 
>>>><http://www.hablablow.com/devX/loadTest2/testXXX5.htm>
>>>>So any help on this is warmly welcome...
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Guillaume.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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