Preload images WITHOUT javascript

jasper24

Hi -

Basically, I've got a header file (header.html), that is inserted into all the PHP pages on a site I'm working on. I know I'm supposed to remove the <head> and <body> tags from header.html, but I need this header to preload images, and the only way I know to do this is via javascript inserted within the <head> tags.

It's absolutely necessary for me to remove these <head> and <body> tags because my page is basically messed up due to the complexity of the coding, and it's absolutely necessary that these images preload, as it's fairly graphics intensive.

Any help would be appreciated, and keep in mind that I'm a complete newbie, so please dumb down all responses.

Thanks!

drew010

well there is no way to preload any client images with php or any other server side language, so its up to javascript to do it for you, one way or another.

rikmoncur

Once upon a time, in ye olden days, I used to do daft things like load images into preceeding pages. The images were resized to 1x1pixel and disguised as full-stops (that's a period to the colonials.)
So while the client was reading a page, the images were downloading (put them near the bottom of the page so they've got time to load) then when the client loaded up the next page, the images were already loaded into cache.
Dunno how successful it ever was but we thought we were soop-de-doop clever webmasters at the time.