matt_thomson wrote:

Aren't you reinventing lightbox or one of its derivatives (jQuery based 
perhaps?)

Neven
> I have already brought this up in a mootools group, but If anyone here
> has any smart ideas, they are much appreciated.
>
> I have a photo gallery that will display about 50 thumbnails. When
> thumbnail #1 is clicked, big image number 1 is displayed and so on...
>
> Ideally I would like to put all the thumbs in one div (as <img
> src="..), and all the big images in another div (as <img src="..
> style="display; none" />)
>
> Then I could (with mootools) grab all the big images as an array
> (getElements), grab the thumbs as an array, and do an each loop
> through the thumbs. So if thumbsImageArray[index] is clicked on,
> bigImageArray[index] is shown.
>
> All pretty simple, except that I don't want 50 big images to load
> right away, and "display: none" does not stop the browser from
> requesting them from the server.
>
> I am thinking I may have to make a seperate json bit, and load all the
> big image info (src, width,height) as arrays/objects, then access
> these arrays with the mootools. This would work, but ideally I would
> love to have all my data nice and cleanly put in the HTML, do a
> getElements, do an each loop, sorted.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to stop the browser requesting the image,
> and still having the correct src in the html. I don't want an
> incorrect src, as it will result in 50 unnesscessary server calls.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt.
> >
>
>   


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