It's to preload the images that are referenced by the links. Perhaps a working sample of the jquery example might be more clear: http://www.solidhex.com/code-samples/jquery/gallery.html
On Apr 28, 7:21 pm, RobG <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 29, 10:25 am, solidhex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > I am trying to do something similar with Prototype as compared to this > > snippet of code down below: > [...] > > The idea is, all the linked images pre-load while showing an animated > > gif. Then, once the images are finished loading, you can click for a > > standard js image swap. I am struggling just to get the pre-loading > > portion working though. Here's what I was tinkering with: > > It seems you simply want to display the loading gif while waiting for > the body load event to fire, so why not do exactly that? Set your > loading GIF as the first image to display, perhaps absolutely > positioned in an obvious location, then when the load event occurs, > remove it. > > > document.observe("dom:loaded", function() { > > So no loading gif while the html loads, only while the images load? > > [...] > > > Any suggestions? thanks in advance! > > Most (all?) browsers show an animation to indicate that the page is > still loading, and icons to show images that haven't loaded yet (among > other things). Why do they need this? > > -- > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
