Quoting Jon Trelfa:
I've got a document I've been working on that uses a background image that moves for rollovers (tabs). In FF, everything seems to operate smoothly. In IE, however, a message shows up in the status bar that it's 'downloading' the image everytime I roll the mouse over a tab? Sometimes it's a really fast message, but it really shows up poorly on a dialup connection. Is this normal behavior?
It appears as if under Internet Explorer, CSS is handled in such a way that backgrounds are re-rendered when re-positioned.
Do I need to preload the image or something?
I think you might have to separate http://pps.esynergymedia.com/images/tab-bg.gif into 3 separate bits and no pre-loading will be necessary. I don't think pre-loading would do the trick. Images should be preloaded when they do not appear until something triggers it. In this particular case, you only have a single images that appears from the very beginning.
It's very odd (and annoying) because the browser shouldn't be downloaded everytime the person rolls over a tab.
[typo] image, not browser
http://pps.esynergymedia.com Background image: http://pps.esynergymedia.com/images/tab-bg.gif TIA, Jon
You can (perhaps should) render the entire tab menu without any graphics and use
pure-CSS solutions. With plain, uniform colour in the background, there is no justification for images either. See examples here: http://pro.html.it/esempio/nifty/ Hope it helps, Roy -- Roy S. Schestowitz http://Schestowitz.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
