Many Images and Timing Issues

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With many 400x300 images (close to 100) as part of the slideshow, with the 
images themselves as 
thumbnails, I noticed the following problems in IE7 and FF2/Windows:

1. The horizontal scrolling of the thumbnails does not work (high severity).
2. The controller buttons do not appear until all the thumbnail images are 
loaded. This may be 
several dozen seconds (medium severity).
3. Other images specified through CSS, such as thumbnail background images, 
only appear after all 
the images have loaded (low severity). This is not a problem with the slideshow 
component, 
because the user can dream all sorts of images for backgrounds, but perhaps it 
can be alleviated if 
the slideshow creates a dummy thumbnail during initialization.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by virid...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2009 at 2:31

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In order for the horizontal scrolling to work properly you may need to increase 
the
width of the .thumbnails-ul class in the slideshow CSS.

As for the loading, the captions, controller and loader elements are all 
initialized
before the thumbnails. Beyond that Javascript should not have control over how 
the
browser chooses to prioritize individual elements. You might try initializing 
your
slideshow on page load rather than domready to see if that makes a difference.

Definitely Javascript/CSS will not scale as well as, say, Flash for very large 
shows
- just given to the nature of the medium. Logistically you might consider 
whether 100
images is the best amount to feed to your users - or if smaller sets that are 
loaded
dynamically are more appropriate.

Original comment by aeron.gl...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2009 at 1:30

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Original comment by aeron.gl...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 8:07

• Changed state: WontFix

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It sounds like the task of calculating the right width rests on the slideshow 
component itself.
Also, with many images, the scrolling sometimes fails to work entirely, so 
there is definitely a problem there that 
is unlikely to be solved by setting widths.

Original comment by virid...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 9:43