[thelist] Re: preloading images (and drinkies) [was: Apparently I Owe One]

Katherine Spice k.spice at acu.ac.uk
Wed Feb 7 06:10:31 CST 2001


<tip type="solution">
change "new Image()" to "new Image(width, height)" to avoid the partial
image problem.
</tip>

re drinkies - I appreciate that there's quite a lot of "noise" with all
the country specific arrangements, but I've really enjoyed reading what
everyone else is doing - it gives me a <ah>warm fuzzy sense of
community</ah>.

re london drinks + noodles, +1 here, if I'm free, at least I _think_ I'm
free...humm...let me just check my palm pilot....
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/02/04/stinwenws01005.html

katherine


matthew garrett wrote:
> 
> <warning>
> I've tried similar schemes, and various browsers (IE on Mac for one, i
> think) will end up with partial images if the user clicks through before the
> graphic finishes loading. Even if they re-load the page, it's still partial.
> 
> Not pretty. i gave up without finding any adequate solution.
> </warning>
> 
> Matt




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