Hi, I have a problem with the Cycle plugin (jQuery-based slideshow, http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/ ) that I hope someone here can help me out with.
Currently, Cycle loads all the images up front. That's a problem for me - the slideshow I'm working on may have a very large number of images, not all of which will necessarily be shown. What we need is some way of making it only preload the image that's going to be shown next. The questions: - Does anyone know if there's a way to make Cycle do this as it is? Having looked through the code, I'd say no, but Javascript isn't my first language, so it's best to ask the experts. Perhaps someone's performed this modification before? - Assuming the answer to the above is 'no', does anyone have any pointers for me regarding modifying Cycle to only preload the next image? It sources its images from <img src=...> tags in its own div - does this mean that the browser will immediately try to load all the images, regardless of anything I do in Javascript? Go easy on me - I haven't done any Javascript in many years, things have changed a lot and my brain can only soak up a little at a time! All comments welcome. (side note - if I'm able to solve this one, the solution would probably help the writer of the recent post "slideshow for big images") Mike.
