RE: Background Question

by Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft(at)bright.net>

Date:	Mon, 01 Dec 1997 16:46:16 -0500
To:	"bart(at)bgrafyx.com" <bart(at)bgrafyx.com>, "'mareegold(at)earthlink.net'" <mareegold(at)earthlink.net>, "anatal(at)iron.com.br" <anatal(at)iron.com.br>
Cc:	"hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org" <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

>In many browsers, including MSIE 3.x, the content of
>a page won't display until the background image is loaded

this can even be used purposely for effect, although a truly fast machine
will loose the effect:
	http://www.rootsweb.com/~seky/personal/anyway.html

go ahead and scroll down and read one of the sayings I try to live by while
waiting on the large background graphic to load...


>if you enclose the content in a table. However I don't think
>this "order of loading" is neccessary because of the bgcolor
>attribute of <body> which can display your site reasonably
>well before the actual background image loads (and that 
>should only be a few seconds)..
>

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