Can I control the sequence in which images load on a page?

[BobBob]

I have a page (http://drbova.com/officephotos.htm) with a row of thumbnails
on the bottom and corresponding images that become visible with the
onmousover event. All of the images (including the thumbs) were edited in
photoshop to make them an appropriate size. The page works fine, but it's
clear that some of the hidden images are loading before the thumbs, which
makes the whole thing a lot less efficient than I would like. Is there any
way to get the thumbs to load before the hidden files?

I'm not using the photo gallery option because I don't like the layout.

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP-MVP]]

No.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

 

[Ronx]

Images will be requested from the server in the order they appear in the
HTML.
Move the thumbnails top the top of the page, and the large images below
the thumbnails.
The images are in drastic need of optimisation since the page takes
nearly a minute to load on a broadband connection - this page should be
nearer 5 seconds on my connection.

Take a look at the page in FireFox - there is a lot of work required,
especially with the menu.

 

[Murray]

FP only does what you tell it to. If you don't have the background
knowledge to know not to do certain things, FP won't prevent you from doing
them. Sorry....

 

[Dave B.]

That's not an obvious question. FP is just a tool, it can't read your mind,
you have to tell IT what to do. I have no problems at all with cross browser
support in FP.
What good is your car if it can't take you anywhere? You have to have the
knowledge to drive it, if you don't have that knowledge you'll likely end up
into a tree.

 

[Murray]

Just remember that preloading is like a trash compactor. It takes 25 pounds
of trash and turns it into 25 pounds of trash.

The reason someone is asking this question is that the page is image-heavy
already, otherwise the graphics would load and render so fast, nobody would
really notice. Preloading on an image-heavy page will not help AT ALL.

 

[Tom Willett]

There is no true WYSIWYG web creation tool. I wish they never even thought
of using the term.

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| That's true, but while I am not versed in HTML, I have been using PCs at a
| pretty high level since 1986. I'm used to working my way through cryptic
| help files and little programmatic idiosyncracies. Despite this, I'm
findinf
| FP to be a real pain in the butt. I bought Frontpage specifically because
it
| is advertised as a WYSIWYG tool for web site creation. It certainly is
not
| that.
|
| "Murray" wrote:
|
| > FP only does what you tell it to. If you don't have the background
| > knowledge to know not to do certain things, FP won't prevent you from
doing
| > them. Sorry....
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| > --------------
| > MVP FrontPage
| >
| >
| > | > > Thanks for the input.
| > >
| > > So here's an obvious question: what good is Frontpage is I can't rely
on
| > > it
| > > to set up a web page that works in anything other than IE and if even
it
| > > doesn't even give reliable results in IE?
| > >
| > > "Ronx" wrote:
| > >
| > >> Images will be requested from the server in the order they appear in
the
| > >> HTML.
| > >> Move the thumbnails top the top of the page, and the large images
below
| > >> the thumbnails.
| > >> The images are in drastic need of optimisation since the page takes
| > >> nearly a minute to load on a broadband connection - this page should
be
| > >> nearer 5 seconds on my connection.
| > >>
| > >> Take a look at the page in FireFox - there is a lot of work required,
| > >> especially with the menu.
| > >>
| > >> --
| > >> Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
| > >> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| > >> FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| > >> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> | > >>
| > >> > I have a page (http://drbova.com/officephotos.htm) with a row of
| > >> > thumbnails
| > >> > on the bottom and corresponding images that become visible with the
| > >> > onmousover event. All of the images (including the thumbs) were
edited
| > >> > in
| > >> > photoshop to make them an appropriate size. The page works fine,
but
| > >> > it's
| > >> > clear that some of the hidden images are loading before the thumbs,
| > >> > which
| > >> > makes the whole thing a lot less efficient than I would like. Is
there
| > >> > any
| > >> > way to get the thumbs to load before the hidden files?
| > >> >
| > >> > I'm not using the photo gallery option because I don't like the
layout.
| > >>
| > >>
| >
| >
| >

 

[Murray]

Yeah. I always say that there will only be WYSIWYG when there is one
version of one browser in existence.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

See http://irt.org/script/image.htm
Especially 72, 282, 653, 862

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|I realize that loading will take as long as it takes, and that's fine. My
| goal is to get the thumbs loaded first, since they are what people will look
| at first, and then to load the hidden images thereafter. It sounds like the
| only way to do that is to put them at the top of the page.
|
|
|
| "Murray" wrote:
|
| > Just remember that preloading is like a trash compactor. It takes 25 pounds
| > of trash and turns it into 25 pounds of trash.
| >
| > The reason someone is asking this question is that the page is image-heavy
| > already, otherwise the graphics would load and render so fast, nobody would
| > really notice. Preloading on an image-heavy page will not help AT ALL.
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| > --------------
| > MVP FrontPage
| >
| >
| > | > > You can pre-load the images.
| > >
| > > http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/preload-images.html
| > >
| > > Allan Browning
| > > Vision Quest
| > >
| > > "BobBob" wrote:
| > >
| > >> I have a page (http://drbova.com/officephotos.htm) with a row of
| > >> thumbnails
| > >> on the bottom and corresponding images that become visible with the
| > >> onmousover event. All of the images (including the thumbs) were edited
| > >> in
| > >> photoshop to make them an appropriate size. The page works fine, but
| > >> it's
| > >> clear that some of the hidden images are loading before the thumbs, which
| > >> makes the whole thing a lot less efficient than I would like. Is there
| > >> any
| > >> way to get the thumbs to load before the hidden files?
| > >>
| > >> I'm not using the photo gallery option because I don't like the layout.
| >
| >
| >

 

[BobBob]

Thanks all.