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Thumper Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Deeetroit, MI. USA Insane since: Mar 2002	posted 04-01-2002 05:41 I was wondering if it is possible to have users go to a site, view a Flash intro movie (which loads pretty fast), and while this Flash movie plays, have the Home page load in the background. Is there some kind of Javascript element that I can put in this intro page that will do this? It's not horribly slow loading the home page, but enough that it could loose a percentage of viewers. There are lots of graphics that the customer "needed" in there. Please help!!!
mr.maX Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia Insane since: Sep 2000	posted 04-01-2002 05:46 http://www.dhtmlnirvana.com/alchemy/preload.htm
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 04-01-2002 06:47 Take my word for it: a flash intro page will lose more visitors than a slow-loading main page.
Thumper Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Deeetroit, MI. USA Insane since: Mar 2002	posted 04-01-2002 07:09 Max, I see a preloader here, but it does not say anything about preloading from a different page altogether. Would I be better off hiding all layers except the Flash one until everything is loaded on the same page. If so, how would this be done? BTW, I am a graphical person so this may sound dumb!
Thumper Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Deeetroit, MI. USA Insane since: Mar 2002	posted 04-01-2002 07:10 Yeah Slime I know but this guy is firm on this intro...I tried.
Slime Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: Massachusetts, USA Insane since: Mar 2000	posted 04-01-2002 13:43 Preloading the actual HTML in the next page is impossible. All you can do is preload the images. This is done by creating Image() objects with JavaScript, so the images are loaded into memory and into the cache. Then the browser gets them back out of the cache when you go to the page that requires them.

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Thumper
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Deeetroit, MI. USA
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted 04-01-2002 05:41

I was wondering if it is possible to have users go to a site, view a Flash intro movie (which loads pretty fast), and while this Flash movie plays, have the Home page load in the background. Is there some kind of Javascript element that I can put in this intro page that will do this? It's not horribly slow loading the home page, but enough that it could loose a percentage of viewers. There are lots of graphics that the customer "needed" in there. Please help!!!

mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted 04-01-2002 05:46

http://www.dhtmlnirvana.com/alchemy/preload.htm

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 04-01-2002 06:47

Take my word for it: a flash intro page will lose more visitors than a slow-loading main page.

Thumper
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Deeetroit, MI. USA
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted 04-01-2002 07:09

Max, I see a preloader here, but it does not say anything about preloading from a different page altogether. Would I be better off hiding all layers except the Flash one until everything is loaded on the same page. If so, how would this be done? BTW, I am a graphical person so this may sound dumb!

Thumper
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Deeetroit, MI. USA
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted 04-01-2002 07:10

Yeah Slime I know but this guy is firm on this intro...I tried.

Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted 04-01-2002 13:43

Preloading the actual HTML in the next page is impossible. All you can do is preload the images. This is done by creating Image() objects with JavaScript, so the images are loaded into memory and into the cache. Then the browser gets them back out of the cache when you go to the page that requires them.