selective timed loading

[michaewlewis]

How do you make a web page load the top of the page (like the head and menu and stuff) before the content and the images in the body?
I've noticed that sites like Yahoo! does this and I can't figure it out. I think it's some kind of preloading function, or maybe a include command.... anybody know?

[TF_TheMoon]

It partly depends on your browser. some browser won't display the page until the buffer reaches the end. You can attempt to push content from the buffer with the flush() command. http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.flush.php

Keep in mind that tables often hold up the output till you reach the end of the table tag

[Oersoep]

You could also give all the images an id= attribute, and fill them in using javascript afterwards. But it won't make your page faster, just slower.

Some php configurations secretely do an ob_start(). You could try to put a ob_end_flush(); at the beginning of your script.