In contrast, I've noticed that images called by css files (as div backgrounds) *all* download in IE and Safari on Mac (not sure about IEWin)
That's interesting.
My research found that only IE on Mac has this problem, that is, it downloads and caches all the images referenced in a stylesheet, even if they're not required for the page currently being viewed. Safari 1.2.2, at least, didn't display this behaviour.
This would certainly explain why IE on Mac is sometimes very slow loading pages for no obvious reason.
Is this off-topic? I apologise to those who think it is, but surely the idea that "smaller is better" is a standard, even if it's so obvious a standard that it goes without saying.
We have an internal standard we try to enforce where pages should be 60Kb or less, and in order to test pages against that standard, I needed a tool, that's the origin of the problem...
jh
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