Su Sorry - code below:
Should also have mentioned that the delay only happens the first time the page is accessed in an IE7 session - so if I re-run the page a second time, there is no delay. This applies to both the local test of the following HTML and also remotely accessed webpages that use jquery. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http:// www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Nic Skerten Photography</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="keywords" content="photography, color photography, black and white, black and white photographs, landscape photography, people, people photography, portraits, commercial, fine-art, fine-art photographs, digital prints, Fuji, Mamiya, Pentax, prints, gallery, photo, photo gallery, portfolio, photographic portfolio, digital imaging, digital photography, hand coloured, hand-coloured, hand colored, hand-colored, fine art, portrait, nude, landscape, nature, wildlife, uk, united kingdom, winchester, hampshire, print sales, plants, flower, flowers, plant, animal, animals, repair, restoration, boudoir, style, creative, studio, stock, wedding, weddings, portraiture"> <meta name="description" content="Nic Skerten Photography"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <!-- ImageReady Preload Script (NSPtemplatebasesliced.psd) --> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery-latest.js"></ script> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/thickbox.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- function newImage(arg) { if (document.images) { rslt = new Image(); rslt.src = arg; return rslt; } } function changeImages() { if (document.images && (preloadFlag == true)) { for (var i=0; i<changeImages.arguments.length; i+=2) { document[changeImages.arguments[i]].src = changeImages.arguments[i +1]; } } } var preloadFlag = false; function preloadImages() { if (document.images) { MenuBarHome_over = newImage("images/MenuBarHome-over.jpg"); MenuBarAbout_over = newImage("images/MenuBarAbout-over.jpg"); MenuBarPortfolio_over = newImage("images/MenuBarPortfolio- over.jpg"); MenuBarServices_over = newImage("images/MenuBarServices-over.jpg"); MenuBarNews_over = newImage("images/MenuBarNews-over.jpg"); MenuBarContactUs_over = newImage("images/MenuBarContactUs- over.jpg"); ColumnHead1Title_over = newImage("images/ColumnHead1Title- over.jpg"); ColumnHead2Title_over = newImage("images/ColumnHead2Title- over.jpg"); ColumnHead3Title_over = newImage("images/ColumnHead3Title- over.jpg"); ColumnHead4Title_over = newImage("images/ColumnHead4Title- over.jpg"); preloadFlag = true; } } // --> </script> <!-- End Preload Script --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/oldmaster.css" type="text/css"> </head> On Jun 28, 3:10 pm, Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would be a lot easier to check on if we could see the actual document > you're using. > > On 6/28/07, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Sorry if this query has appeared twice but it doesn't seem to be > > making it up onto the list. > > > My problem is: > > > Implementing a new website and would like to use Thickbox to display > > images in popup window. Have included the jQuery library code > > statement as required but when I test the page locally it hangs IE7 > > for 10-15 secs before displaying. Have checked websites that I know > > use jQuery and Thickbox and they gave same effect. It's not the > > Thickbox script as if I take it out I still get same problem - so must > > be the jQuery library execution that's a problem. Also as I'm testing > > it on my local machine it's not a downloading issue. > > > If I test my pages with Firefox (and check those websites I know are > > using jQuery) there's no problem with a delay at all. > > > I've checked the forums, etc and can't find any reference to this sort > > of problem - so any help would be much appreciated. > > > Thanks > > > Nick- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -