ProLoser/AnythingSlider — Issue #232: Lazy loading not working on Chrome and FF
Author: girizano
Created: 2011-12-13 19:33:50+00:00
State: open

For a friend of mine I'm looking to replace his current Gallery Plugin, which has too many drawbacks. I really like this AnythingSlider, it's a winner and does everything I'm looking for. Hats off to the people who developed it.

We are in Argentina and we don't have those fast Internet connexions, so we cannot load all images in one go, that takes several minutes.

Now, I got the Lazyloading working for current versions of IE and Opera, but Chrome and FF definitely preload all images: I disconnected from the Internet after the 2ns slide, but I could still browse all pictures. Also, both browsers take longer to load the slides, obviously because they are getting all the images.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem? And does anyone know why it looks like besides the first, the second and the last images are preloaded also, even on IE and Opera? Can this be avoided (again, for speed reasons).

Test site available at www.sterlingpreview.biz/pat4.htm