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Posted by dorayme on June 7, 2008, 12:54 am
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> dorayme wrote:
> > In article
> >
> >> This may be a strange question from a non-technical person who asked
> >> me to make his whole site and images load all at once. I.e. the
> >> completely loaded site would show up immediately even with a big
> >> background image. I explained that images are taking longer to load
> >> because of
> >
> > ...
> >
> > This is how to do it:
> >
> > Deliver a page that has the images load but are hidden. On this page,
> > have a nice distraction like
> >
> > <http://dorayme.890m.com/jokes/pope_rabbi_debate.html>
> >
> > with a link at the bottom to go to the real page. The images will have
> > been cached by then.
> >
>
> Umm. dorayme? What link at the bottom? The Rabbi debate was cute but
> ... uh ... no link to another page. Hence, diminished value to your
> tutorial posting. Or did I miss something?
Yes, I think you missed that I was conveying an idea which might spur
useful ideas in the OP. For example it might spur him to make the
opening page one that engages the reader with stuff relevant to his
website which quietly also loads stuff which becomes visible on further
pages quickly because now cached. I proceeded without dotting all the
"i"s and crossing all the "t"s.
I was *not* giving an example of the complete page he should write as a
decoy while the images load. I was giving the idea that on such a page
he could have something to amuse or engage the reader while the sneaky
business was going on behind the scene (in a negatively margined area or
in an invisibly displayed element*. What he could have is a story about
rabbis and popes. Or whatever he liked. I saw an opportunity to let you
read this joke again.
Best to meet ideas half way. Not to greet an idea with the demand that
it should be everything to everyone and perfect in every respect.
Perhaps you also missed, because I never said anything about it, that I
am suspicious of the need to be loading things that take a lot of time
without reserving such to pages where the user knows he is wanting such
a thing and is prepared to wait for it. The website maker should get
into the habit of giving people tastes of things and them being able to
get more if they want. Not to be lumbering folk with a lots of stuff
just like that! It is not a lesson that all have absorbed.
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* I am working right now on a special design for an invisible element
that gives a creepy *feeling* to the viewer, something he cannot quite
see but knows is there (like a ghost). It makes me shudder to think of
it, wait till you sense it when I publish. (Boji, if you want an
advanced *shuddering sense* of this, send $US5 and I will give you a
draft)
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dorayme
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