I am using:

PHP Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin

image1 = new Image();
image1.src = "<?php print $row['url']; ?>";

// End -->
</script>

That is preloading an image that is being displayed. Is there a better way of preloading as it still seems slow? And can I somehow make it so that after the whole page loads it starts loading the next image to speed up surfing? It is a comic book script and the images are a bit big and usually read in order. I would like to be able to make it as fast as possible. Just wondering if you have any ideas...

And can I somehow make it so that after the whole page loads it starts loading the next image to speed up surfing?

To my understanding that's what preloading images does. It loads the image before it's used.

This should really be in the javascript forum.

Nathan

Sorry about that. But I want to stop it from loading too early. I don't want it slowing down the current page. Just use idle time to start the next image on the next page. Have it download in the background while they are looking at the current page so the next page will load the image from the cache.

If you put the preloading into a function, maybe you could use the setTimeout() event.

setTimeout("function name",time in milliseconds to wait to prload);