[jQuery] Re: performance questions

The problem is that other images on the page are slowing the page. Is
there some way to get the stars to precede the other images in
rendering?

On Oct 2, 5:56 am, Diego <diego.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What browser did this happen with? (IE I'd guess).
> The star rating plugin only uses 2 separate (and very small) images
> which should load almost instantaneously. Once the image is loaded for
> one control, it should be immediately displayed for all other controls
> using the same image - not downloaded again.
>
> You could try pre-loading the image via javascript (Google it)
>
> On Sep 29, 5:06 pm, chadmichael <chadmichaelda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > First of all, thestarratingplugin is great. I think I need some
> > help with my use of it perhaps. I've got some performance issues
> > regarding the rendering of the page.
>
> > The problem is that when the page is waiting on some images to finish
> > loading, thejQueryhas already run and converted thestarrated
> > fields into checkboxes. In my case, I'm using a split set so there
> > are 20 checkboxes, and the user sees these for several seconds while
> > the images of the page are loading.
>
> > Is there something I could do to help this? I was thinking about
> > trying to hide the checkboxes until the images were done.