Brian Chandler <chandler@yomogi.or.jp> wrote/replied to: ><script type="text/javascript"><!-- >// Load bg ahead >var anything = new Image(); >anything.src = "pics/clouds.jpg"; >//--> ></script> > >This is entirely independent of the actual background loading, but just >by mentioning the image file, with luck the browser will start loading >it immediately. The virtue of this over possibly more elaborate schemes >is that if it "doesn't work" it will simply have no effect. > >Hard to test this sort of thing exhaustively, but it seemed to help my >index page. ( Search down source of http://imaginatorium.org/index.htm >for "Load graphics ahead of photos") > >Brian Chandler I tried your code, even checked your page, you don't load a background, yours is plain yellow. I couldn't get mine to load first, will keep trying. What truly amazes me is I haven't been able to find this, although it seems like it should be a default, or at the least easy to set or code. Many pages have figured it out though, I see pages loading backgrounds first all the time.
