;-)) GC On Jun 26, 3:48 pm, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very nice work my man! Special thanks to Mike Tuupola for hooking > GianCarlo up with that article. > > Rey > > > > GianCarlo Mingati wrote: > > Fixed! > > Now the preloader works correctly even in Opera 9. Before only IE7 and > > FF were calculating the width correctly. > > > On that page: > >http://www.quirksmode.org/css/displayimg.html > > i discovered (we really never end learning) that when image has > > display: none or is inside an element with display: none (my exact > > case, the UL was set to display: none; and then to "block" when images > > were fully downloaded), the browser may opt not to download the image > > until the display is set to another value (eg: block). > > > And infact Opera 9 does not download an image if that image is inside > > a container "not showed". And that caused the rendering problem, since > > the galleries rely on image width() to size correctly their 'mask' > > contanier. > > So for my preload i just moved the list with images with a temporary > > class to -999em to the left, and then, when document IS ready (images > > downloaded) i remove that temporary class and apply the correct CSS > > class wich of course is set to left: 0; > > > And it does the trick! > > GC > > > On Jun 26, 2:32 pm, GianCarlo Mingati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> HI, > >> thanks for the link. > >> GC > > >> On Jun 26, 1:22 pm, Mika Tuupola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:04 PM, GianCarlo Mingati wrote: > >>>> i wasn't able to find a solution for my "plugin": preload an unknown > >>>> number of images in a page without writing their path in an array, or > >>>> using load vs onload functions or any other (inspiring but too > >>>> complicated for my level) snippet of code found right here in the > >>>> list. > >>> Looks good! Did you ever check this: > >>>http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/823/sequentially-preloading-images > >>> or was that what you ment with "load vs onload functions"? > >>> -- > >>> Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/ > > -- > BrightLight Development, LLC. > 954-775-1111 (o) > 954-600-2726 (c) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.iambright.com