preloading?

[blinkk]

I dont know how to really formulate this question so bear with me.

I've noticed on some sites that there is a delay when the content is shown. That works well if you dont want the user seeing the pictures load but everything loading at once. I want to put that on my site (yes I asked a question a little like this before) but I dont want to force any caching so if I change ,say, my spotlight picture every week.

I've noticed this on sites like gamespot.com & gamespy.com where they have a lot of images.

Searching around this is the best solution I have found:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- hide from none JavaScript Browsers

Image1= new Image(175,50)
Image1.src = "image1.gif"

Image2 = new Image(25,30)
Image2.src = "image2.gif"

Image3 = new Image(125,80)
Image3.src = "image3.gif"

// End Hiding -->
</SCRIPT>

is there a better/faster way of doing this?

[Weedpacket]

Would perhaps a Javascript forum be more appropriate for this?

Besides, the usual approach for a browser is to load a page and then request the images it contains. The page obviously has to come first. You might find a way (though not involving PHP) to prevent anything from being displayed until the images are loaded, but how is hat better?

[jannoy]

you can use CSS instead