Re: FLASH: Load it LAST!!??

[John Dowdell]

The various browsers don't offer an interface to controlling when things

load, sorry. They tend to take different approaches to choosing when to

request things in a page.


That said, you can force the issue by loading other media in a *previous*

page... this insures that the browser already has it in its cache, so it

won't need to request these GIFs for your target page.


(How to hide a load in a previous page? Sometimes people put scrunched-up

copies as small dots in a previous page... sometimes people use a

JavaScript loading routine... sometimes people use a very small frameset

division. The key goal is to get the desired material into the browser's

cache *before* the page where you want to appear to control loading order.)


jd






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