I'd suggest asking this question on an Apache list, as it would seem this
behavior is more a part of Apache. Having said this, the main reason for
this suggestion is that, since this is an Apache issue, the Apache lists
would be more attuned to answering this type of issue.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ted Hilts wrote:
> Actually it's a big problem for me and it's probably just a weenie tiny
> problem for someone else. That's why I'm asking:
>
> I have a host web site and performance is always an issue as well as a
> professional appearance. One of the outstanding problems with this web
> site is a key page that has a full screen picture as the background. We
> want it that way. Obviously this takes a short time to load but
> significantly longer than the text that shows up almost immediately.
> The text is supposed to overlay the picture. Since the picture download
> time is greater than the text (which is supposed to overlay the
> picture), for a short time, the text appears all by itself against a
> flat background color. Ugh!!! The text is organized to look nice when
> it overlays the picture. But for about 30 seconds to 1 minute depending
> upon network congestion and bandwidth the text is there all by itself
> and really looks dumb.
>
> I need some way of stopping any kind of display until the picture
> background has been displayed. Then the text and the other stuff can be
> overlaid on the picture.
>
> Is there any way (and please don't say java unless you can provide an
> example) I can tell the server to serve the picture first. It's a
> standard web page with table areas and content in the table areas. The
> top of the web page has a table area within which the background picture
> is displayed with the text overlaid on the background picture. The
> remainder of the web page nicely blocks the background (except for
> around the edges which is the desired affect). The web page is fairly
> long so the background picture gets reproduced twice but only the top
> picture is shown - as it is supposed to be. So everything is fine
> except that the background picture gets displayed a significantly longer
> time after everything else is displayed. Again, Ugh!!!
>
> One idea which I really don't like, is to create another page just for
> the purpose of displaying the background picture so that it is loaded
> into the browser cache. Then when the page is sent which is to feature
> this picture as the background it will appear much more quickly,
> probably as fast as the text. This is of course the case once the page
> has been fully downloaded anyway, the browser simply checks for a new
> version and if it is not there it takes it from cache.
>
> So if anyone can help me with what for me is a big unpleasant problem I
> would be certainly appreciate the help. And also I won't have to keep
> saying Ugh!!!
>
> Bye-thanks_TED
>
>
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