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nathansearles / slidesjs

SlidesJS is obsolete and no longer maintained.
https://nathansearles.github.io/slidesjs/
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"LazyLoad" next image in queue #155

Open zumajoe opened 13 years ago

zumajoe commented 13 years ago

Thought it could be smart to come up with an option/solution to "lazyload" the preloading setup. Somehow start the img SRC to null for all images besides the first. Then, at the end of our "Pause" interval, it will trigger the preload of the next image- when that finishes loading it will start the next animation, and so on.

It would cut down on wasted bandwidth (say you have 5 slides, and the user only stays on the page for 2 of the slides-- they still had to load all 5) and speed up initial page load times.

luison commented 13 years ago

I've also been looking at alternatives to this. Too many images make the page load inefficient while it would be logical to load only "next image" while displaying or with a click to next.

ghost commented 13 years ago

A lazy load option would be great! I´m looking for a lightweight plugin that does exactly that, but haven´t found anything usable yet. I´m using Slides several other projects, but can´t use it on large slideshows or with big images.

Galleria does offer lazy load but it´s way to heavy for a simple image fader. Another new lazy-loading plugin called Really Simple Slideshow looked interesting, but at the moment it doesn´t work well in Chrome nor IE8.

zumajoe commented 13 years ago

Maybe this will happen in v2? The new beta looks great!