Topic awaiting preservation: Image Mapping/Slicing/Load order

I made a fairly big image into 16 peices, but they don't load in any visible order, so it looks a little silly for a sec or two... I've seen many, but what's the best way to set the order that the image load in?

Why not preload?

Load all the images before the website opens.

Ideally, you would want a website that doesn't take so long to load. Sometimes this is unaviodable though. You could be more interested in loading your navigation images first, or you might be more interested in getting the images directly related to your content loaded so things seem to work better. It really depends on the person and type of website. For example, in a tutorial with lots of images in it, you might want to load your navigation images last and have your tutorial example images load first.

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cheers.jay

I'm not a aware of a way of changing the load order of a browser. Jestah's advice is correct if you want to control the order your viewers see your images.

Actualy you might be able to Bugs.

Using a simple preload script (Like a preload for mouseovers) in the head of the document the browser should request those images first and most likely in the order they are specified in the script. I'm almost certain this works with NN 4.x however I'm not to sure about other browsers.

Another way to do this would be to create a massive DIV and position it off screen (x = -1000, y = -1000). Then dump all of the images your using into this DIV in the order you want to load them. Also make sure this DIV is the first element after the BODY tag and the web page should send the request for those images in the order it reads them.

It might work, it might not.

Hey Bugs, did you know you were 11 posts from P2K!

thanks for the input guys,

11 posts away from 2k posts, come on buggy, start posting useless content i want to celebrate..........