Image Preloading with jQueryPre-loading images is the key point to prevent the flickering while rendering a cool JavaScript driven animation, rollover, Ajax loader or toggle effect. If the script which is replacing an image pauses to wait for another image to load, the effect became useless.
Image Preloading Deeply - CSS/Javascript/jQueryBrowsers load images after an HTTP request is sent for them either by
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tag or through a javascript call. If you have a javascript function that changes an image on mouseover, you have to wait while the image is retrieved from the server. This would be disturbing when users have a slow internet ...
For better display and visitor interaction, image preloading must be implemented in some cases. Previously we focused on two techniques to achieve image preloading in the following posts:Image Preloading with Javascript,Preloading Images Using CSS. Th's article compares these two methods to underst...