--- Preloading script ??? --

[escapedf]

Hi all,
Ive created a site here:
http://www.plan-myafrica.com/see.htm

If you click on ths thumbnails, a bigger picture pops up..
problem is, the bigger pictures sometimes take ages to load up..
Can anyone suggest a preloading script i can put in here for the bigger pictures, so the pictures load while the page loads?? or anything similar?

Thanks!
Dee

[Logic Ali]

Can anyone suggest a preloading script i can put in here for the bigger pictures, so the pictures load while the page loads?? or anything similar?

That script has a bizarre way of doing things...
Blanket pre-loading will increase your bandwidth usage and on slow connections may not always appear to improve performance. You don't actually need a script to pre-load images - you can have normal <img> tags in a hidden div or set their width and height to 0.

function PreLoader()
{
 this.holder=[];
 
 for(var i=0, len=arguments.length; i<len; i++)
 {
  this.holder[i]=new Image();
  this.holder[i].src=arguments[i];
 }
}


Usage:

 new PreLoader('your.jpg', 'images.jpg', 'here.jpg');

[Christopher Hill]

Instead of a preloading script which will (if the many images are as you say "big") drain bandwidth for people on slower connections, I would suggest something like lightbox which will show a loading bar.