Re: fade in graphic

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:16:56 +1100
To:	Pam Mather <pammather(at)earthlink.net>, hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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G'Day Pam,

At 13:57 16/11/99 -0600, Pam Mather wrote:
>is there some sort of java type thing that will fade in a graphic after the
>rest of the page has loaded?

This could be tricky!

One option is to simply create an animated gif, which does not loop, and in 
which the delay before the fade-in effect allows the rest of the page to 
download.  Unfortunately it will be difficult to anticipate the download 
time of all users.

You might be able to do something similar using the lowsrc attribute of an 
IMG, although this isn't exactly kosher HTML and there is no guarantee it 
would occur after the page had downloaded.

Alternatively, you could use an image-swapping function triggered by the 
onLoad event.  This would guarantee the effect occured after the page was 
fully downloaded - unfortunately it wouldn't fade in if Javascript was 
disabled.

Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au
Firefighter, Werribee Fire Brigade, CFA

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