Hey,
First of all: Sorry if this isn't the right forum?
I've been playing around with the display: none; css property.
It seemed that using this property was a good alternative to javascript wrt. preloading images. This is my code:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Preload test</title>
<meta name="author" content="Jeppe Utzon, http://www.utzon.com/"; />
<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 7.1.4" />
<meta name="description" content="Preload test page" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen"><!--
img.preload {
display: none;
}
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Wait for page to load completely - then click <a href="large.jpg">here</a> to view the (preloaded) image.<img src="large.jpg" width="1536" height="864" class="preload" alt="Preload image" /></p>
</body>
</html>
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And it's hosted here:
<http://www.utzon.com/preload/>
Please make sure the page loads completely (including the display: none; image) before you click the link.
It works as expected in Gecko-based browsers, but Webcore/Safari doesn't load content which has been tagged with the display: none; property. It seems to me that Gecko's way of handling this is the correct way and I filed a bug report on this to Apple. But then I had doubts and thought I'd let people on this list know about it wrt. which of the two approaches (Gecko's vs. Webcore's) you feel is the correct one.
Cheers, jeppe Utzon
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