How to reposition photos top to bottom so they load in order, top

[Scott Farrell]

I know I did this years ago.. I have like ten books on Frontpage and its in
ONE of them... but I've looked and looked...

I want to know HOW TO:

Reorder the photographs on a page so that they load top to bottom in order
(so new photos at the bottom don't load first before older placed photos at
the top).

I KNOW there is a way to do this and I've spent HOURS trying to figure out
how!

HELP! THanks in advance!

 

[Ronx]

In theory, that is how images do load. In practice that is how they *start*
to load - the finishing order depends on the network, image size, and,
perhaps, the weather.
Objects in a page start to load in the order they are found in the page in
code view. The browser will open several connections to the server, and
start the downloads, so possibly four images will start to download within a
few milliseconds of each other. When they finish downloading, and thus
render in the browser, depends on how long each takes to download - some
will download faster than others. Some will be bigger than others and take
longer. Finishing order can appear to be random and will change from day to
day.

You could use Javascript to write the image into the page, delaying the next
image until the first has finished downloading - but that will considerably
delay the rendering of the page.

The best option (without resorting to Javascript) is to place the smallest
(smallest file size) images before the larger ones - but there are no
guarantees of finishing order.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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