[thelist] browser requests

Ricky Zhou ricky.zhou at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 11:17:37 CST 2006


> My question is : Do browsers usually request files where the url is located
> in a javascript function that is never used; like in an image preloaded for
> mouseovers that is never called. It is my understanding that if the function
> is not called the browser will not try to download the image.

As long as the code that preloads the images is called, the images
will be requested (so that the user doesn't have to wait for the image
when the link is hovered over.

Ricky



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