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Hey Marty, good to see you up on here again. You got a break from school?
I think the images thing is a good idea. But I don't think you should just put them out there...they should only be for people with licenses. Theres gotta be somethin on this site you have to pay for..haha.
I think the images thing is a good idea. But I don't think you should just put them out there...they should only be for people with licenses. Theres gotta be somethin on this site you have to pay for..haha.
Dave Hergert
Software Engineer
"Helping to make the menu better, one at a time."
Software Engineer
"Helping to make the menu better, one at a time."
I personally am unsure, but I would think so. Maybe something along the lines up as the menu is rendered, image placeholders are thrown into the menu. Only top level menus have their images immediately brought in. Then once the menu is finished loading, the images are then sources to the placeholders...to the menu comes up quick but the images follow. But wouldnt you want a menu to load in its entirety? I would say dont use to many images if your menu loads slow...ya gotta draw the line somewhere.
Dave Hergert
Software Engineer
"Helping to make the menu better, one at a time."
Software Engineer
"Helping to make the menu better, one at a time."
I seem to recall a time in version 3 when a menu image only loaded when the menu containing it was first displayed. Of course, that caused performance delays as the site visitor used the menus. So, many of us wrote little image caching scripts to get around that. I think image caching was then built into the v3 menu to resolve the performance delay. But that leads to the reverse problem: a loading delay caused by too many images being cached ahead of time. Perhaps there could be an option to cache images or not. It would work well as another global or, even better, as a menu property, with the default being to cache.
Dave has a good point about the number of images and "drawing the line." One has to consider what will produce the best experience for the site visitors: lots of cool images at the expense of loading time (especially for dial-up users), or faster load time at the expense of fewer images.
Neil... just curious... have you had a chance to try my suggestions from the other thread?
Kevin
Dave has a good point about the number of images and "drawing the line." One has to consider what will produce the best experience for the site visitors: lots of cool images at the expense of loading time (especially for dial-up users), or faster load time at the expense of fewer images.
Neil... just curious... have you had a chance to try my suggestions from the other thread?
Kevin
BummerNeil82591 wrote:Yes it just doesn't take care of the problem.
I have another idea or two... I'll post them in the original thread.For now I have taken all the images from teh sub menu and I am looking for a way to have tehm load only after the entire page is loaded thus making sure it does not effect the home page from loading the other nessecary things.
Kevin