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flashing of main module in IE8

Thread began 12/17/2009 9:30 am by jz288666 | Last modified 12/17/2009 4:14 pm by jz288666 | 2763 views | 5 replies |

12/17/2009 9:30 am | #1 jz288666

flashing of main module in IE8

website:
www.virtualastrology.com

when clicking on the "click to enter" and opening main.html, there is a brief display of something that looks like CSS info. When subsequent tries, the flashing of data is much faster but still there. Closing IE8 and revisiting the site repeats the problem.

The problem doesn't seem to happen in Firefox.

Do I have something misplaced in the main.html file? I can't figure it out.

John

12/17/2009 10:33 am | #2 Jimmy Wu

I'm not able to reproduce this behavior in IE8. Everything loads correctly for me in both FireFox and IE8. Do you have another machine you can test on to see if this happens there as well?

12/17/2009 10:50 am | #3 neilo

FYI, - What I am seeing in IE8 is a brief second's view of the page before the external stylesheet is applied. Perhaps if you referenced the stylesheet from your index page to preload stylesheet, it would cut out the load time on the main.html page? Not sure if this makes sense or not.

12/17/2009 12:04 pm | #4 jz288666

Where in the index.html do I put the proload command and what is the syntax?

Thanks for the help!

John

12/17/2009 12:30 pm | #5 neilo

Hi,

To be honest, I'm not sure that it'll make that much difference. But you would simply reference your stylesheet the same way it appears on your other page, i.e:

<title>Virtual Astrology Home Page</title>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
<!--
@import url("styles.css");

What might be helpful would be to preload the main page feature image (it's 71kb) on the index (enter) page, so that the image is already cached before the main page opens:

So add the preload image script to the head area:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
//-->
</script>

and add a body onload event:

<body onload="MM_preloadImages('plugins/images/feature.jpg')">

12/17/2009 4:14 pm | #6 jz288666

Thanks, those changes fixed the majority of the problem. There remains a very brief flash when going from module to module. Each module has the '@import url("styles.css")' command in the beginning of each file. This command was placed by webassist and much less annoying now.

I wish there were a way to eliminate it altogether though.

Thanks for your help.

John

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