PaPa — Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:03:32 +0000

Abhishek,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have been thinking about using a "slide show" for certain situations. I especially like the sites I've seen that have the "page turning" effect.

A few sites I've seen have done the slide show using PowerPoint; most others have done it using JavaScript.

Thanks again,
Papa

slideshow

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:48:19 +0000

hey,

sorry for replying so late....but an idea struck me only now.

looks to me like you may do well using a slideshow.
the viewer views one image at a time, so no matter what they only get to see it in the order you put them.

PaPa — Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:45:19 +0000

Thanks for the information!

Very enlightening!

--Papa

detox — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:20:29 +0000

You could take a leaf out of a couple of preloading scripts that return TRUE when the images are loaded, this could be done for each separate image, thus giving you control over the order of downloading. Only one small problem would get in the way of this. the waiting time; people simply don't have the patience.

What the others are saying is true. If you have to wait for a 12 image page to download over a slow connection, unless you have the patience of a god, you wont wait around.....

taff — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:48:38 +0000

Andy is completely right. Preloading may speed up the process but will not do anything about the order.

Trust me on this one, I went through the exact same thing on a recent, rather largish photographer portfolio. The client was insisting that the images appear in sequence. It was quite a battle to convince him that it was beyond my control.

AndyB — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:49:40 +0000

Actually, nothing downloads in the order it's listed. The http requests are issued in the order listed but once an http request is issued (almost) anything can happen at the server end or while any of the request/data packets are moving through the Internet.

You can't control it, and it's not worth worrying about.

BTW a page with 12 pictures each 30kb would drive away anyone using a 28.8 modem. Thumbnail images linked to larger versions in a pop-up or separate window is a much friendlier way to go.

PaPa — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:58:32 +0000

Abhishek--

Thanks for the reply. It seems to happen on both IE & NS.

As far as a pattern, I notice that sometimes, say the 3rd jpeg will get stuck loading more often than not. And then on another gallery page, maybe its the 6th jpeg that seems to get stuck. But it's still rather a random event.

I'm just starting to learn javascript, so I'll try your suggestion when I'm up to speed.

--Papa

browser?

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 03:51:42 +0000

hi PaPa,

my guess is that it happens because thats the way the browser works. what browser do you use?

im not sure exactly what you can do about it. try preloading the images in the order you want.

&lt;script&gt;
var imgXYZ = new Image()
imgXYZ = "/folder/xyz.jpg"
&lt;/script&gt;

'
change the var names, locations etc. and repeat those lines of code as needed, in the order you want.

i doubt theres much else....also, could you post what pattern you noticed...it may help.