Re: How do they load so fast?

by Kimiko Drew <macruimmon(at)earthlink.net>

Date:	Wed, 16 May 2001 13:58:07 -0700
To:	Dana Mackonis <DMackonis(at)otg.com>
Cc:	hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	otg
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At 02:41 PM 5/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I just visited a site that has photos that load incredibly fast.

Besides small jpg sizes from compression that others have talked about, 
there is also pre-caching images on a page before the actual image page. 
Either preload images from an javascript "on-load" (which may cause some 
error messages) or simply placing the images as 1x1 pixel images somewhere 
on the page where you don't notice it. Problem with pre-caching is that the 
loader page will take longer to load, as it downloads all the full images.

hth


Kimiko Drew
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