you could also potentially use asset.images as a preloader of sorts to cache the images.
-kb On Jan 9, 11:20 pm, nutron <[email protected]> wrote: > put links around the images that link to the full size image. if your js > breaks, users can still see the full size image by clicking the image. then > in your js, capture the click on the images and prevent it from loading the > image as normal. > see examples of lightbox for this sort of thing. > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Matt Thomson (via Nabble) < > [email protected]<ml-user%[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > Hi, I am making a mootools photo gallery. I want to have all my markup > > in the HTML, and control it with a bit of external mootools. My > > problem is that the gallery may have 20 thumbnails, and 20 big images. > > I want the 20 thumbnails to load straight away, but I only want the > > first big image to load. When the second thumb is clicked on, the > > gallery will grab the second big image from the server and display it. > > > So far I have achieved this by making an array of image sources in the > > js, and making a function, such that if thumb number 2 is clicked on, > > then big_img_src_array[2] is loaded. This works, but I have a lot of > > ugly markup-ish stuff in my js, > > > If I put in <img src="myImage.jpg" style="display: none;" /> the > > browser will still load the image into the cache. > > > Is there any way to do things the mootools way, without loading 20 > > giant images when the page loads? > > > Thanks, > > > Matt. > > > ------------------------------ > > View message @ > >http://n2.nabble.com/Images-in-markup-but-not-loaded-into-browser-tp2... > > To start a new topic under MooTools Users, email > > [email protected]<ml-node%[email protected]> > > To unsubscribe from MooTools Users, click here< (link removed) >. > > ----- > The MooTools Tutorial: http://www.mootorial.comwww.mootorial.com > Clientcide: http://www.clientcide.comwww.clientcide.com > -- > View this message in > context:http://n2.nabble.com/Images-in-markup-but-not-loaded-into-browser-tp2... > Sent from the MooTools Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
