Hi,
I'm hoping for a bit of advise-- I have a (relatively, from the
point-of-view of this dilettante) complex script that attempts to preload
certain images in order to trigger one of a series of six slideshows
(rather than try to articulate, have a look here):
http://www.slack.net/~stacey/stestbed/homejs.jsp
Clicking any of the six blocks of text along the sides will begin a loop
of the corresponding slideshow.
Problem is, of course, there's a lot of loading here (blame the boss). It
seems to run fine on broadband, but, of course, dialup users are getting
broken images all over the place.
The "loading" graphics before the slideshow are really a tease-- just four
seconds of extra time to load the remaining images (not enough for
dialup).
My question is twofold:
-- Any tips, pointers, tutorials on if it's possible to make those
"loading" graphics functional loading graphics (e.g. rather than part of
the array, they stay put until the images I want are actually loaded)?
-or-
-- Any advise on how to properly preload images? (I've read that the
myriad examples we see of preload functions by way of calling the image is
a bit of a misnomer).
Any suggestions at all would be more than appreciated...