Progress Bar

[Thee Gandalf]

Hi again,

I see no one has figured out an answer to my post a few days ago.

Well, here is a new question for you all:

I have a site that is quite heavy with pictures on the front page. Once the page loads, it's fine from them on, however people still using 56k's need some patience.

Is it possible to have a progress bar sit above the page? I don't want a progress bar that will show the percentage of load finished AND THEN display the page. I would like for the page loading process to be visible behind the progress bar.

Is this possible??

Thanks and check out my other posting a few threads back.
Gandalf
:D

[Jon Hanlon]

Not possible, I'm afraid.

You could have an animated gif with a growing bar, but there's no way of telling how long the page will take to download. It's one of the features of tcp/ip.

People won't hang around for more than 15-20 seconds waiting for a page, so make your images smaller and more compressed, and think hard about what has to be there. Using CSS instead of images will also speed things along.

If it were simple, then there'd be no such job as "web-page designer".

[Afrow UK]

I have a similar question...

Where is the script that hides all page items (images and text etc) until everything has been completely downloaded?
I have looked at many sites that do this (such as www.a1javascripts.com and www.planetquake.com) but I cannot find the script in the source.

Thanks for any help!


My sites:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/afrowuk <1st site I made
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/imker/dday-faq <2nd
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/imker/dday-faq-new <3rd (still under dev)
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/imker/des <4th

-Stu