Stephen Poley <sb******************@xs4all.nlwrote in
news:p9********************************@4ax.com:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:28:31 +0100, Brendan Gillatt
<br*****@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.ukwrote:
>>TomB wrote:
>>I came up with this idea to show the larger picture of a thumbnail
by hiding it with css and "unhide" it when one hovers over the
thumbnail. I think it looks pretty nifty, but the problem with
this technique is that you force the visitor to download all the
large pictures too when they open the thumbnails page. Is there
any way to avoid this without using javascript?
This is the page:
http://deimos.curious.be/~dusk/media...c#picturestart
Have a look at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/index.html and see some
of his gallery examples - they rock!
Well, they're entertaining enough, but unless I am mistaken they
don't address the problem that TomB gave. And I think the answer to
TomB's question is that you do indeed need script to handle this
well (though it should be fairly straightforward to provide graceful
degradation for visitors without script).
I just browsed the site mentioned above and find "entertaining enough"
quite an understatement. They don't address the OP's problem, I agree,
but there are some mighty fine looking (although, I admit I looked at
no code) solutions to many difficult to achieve effects. Thank you,
Brendan, for the link. I agree with you, those pages rock.
As far as TomB's problem, I'd like to know that too, but I also agree
that it will probably require some scripting.
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