[thelist] frames load order

Simon Willison simon at incutio.com
Tue Jul 30 11:53:01 CDT 2002


At 12:43 30/07/2002 -0400, PF Soto wrote:
>Hi all. I am puzzled as to why my bottom frame loads first on
>http://www.ashgrovehouse.com/Version2/
>Do any of you know the "rules" for the order in which frames load?  The
>top frame is defined first, so don't know why it loads last?? Much
>appreciate your help...

It's almost certainly because the top frame is a larger document. The two
documents will start loading simultaneously as soon as the browser has
parsed the frameset - the bottom one appears to load first because it is
smaller and takes less time to finish downloading.

There is an interesting post explaining how browsers load images here which
may help explain what is going on:

http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?postid=507338#post507338

Regards,

Simon Willison
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/



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