TIMELINE Preload images or adjust bubbles to not have scrollbars once images arrrive

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The first time an event that includes an image is clicked, the bubble is
too small since the image(s) were not previously downloaded. As a result,
the browser shows scrollbars (ugly). 

Ideas for solutions:
1) Extend Timeline to automatically preload the image specified in the
event's image attribute when the event bubble is being displayed.
-- But on second thought, there would be the case of slow images slowing
down a bubble's display. (Maybe show a busy icon while waiting?)
-- We wouldn't want to preload all the images referenced by the events at
startup, instead would want to preload images only when they are about to
be displayed since only a small subset of the events on a Timeline may be
clicked by the user.

Would also want to handle case where the bubble includes multiple images.

3) Another way to do it would be to dynamically adjust the bubble size once
the image has arrived to make the scrollbars unnecessary.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by larryklu...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 3:03

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The problem mainly seems to affect Internet Explorer users.  I can reliably 
reproduce the problem with IE 8 & 9.  Haven't tried anything earlier.

Works fine with Chrome and Firefox.  IE is still the dominant browser, 
especially for the current project I am using a timeline on.

Original comment by kirk.is...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 6:13

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