Hmm, I think it has to do with the enormous page weight (Firebug calculates it at 1.05 MB). I would look for an overall optimization first to the site's weight (optimize images, clean up markup, pack/ minify javascript and/or CSS files at a minimum).
I ran into an issue with having to maintain an ultra low page weight on a tabbed structure (containing 7 tabs) with each tab containing a photo (additional weight). I went with the plugin you've chosen initially and found it did not suit my needs. So I wrote a rather clean and efficient (IMO) script that reduced the page weight by almost 30%. Check out the "Quick Answers" section of this site: www.texasonline.com View the source and the tabs in the global.js. You'll notice that each image is "dynamically" loaded thus reducing page weight. Not sure if this is the solution, but I would think it's a start. Cheers. Joe www.subprint.com On Jun 13, 4:08 pm, Illah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit of a newb with JavaScript though pretty fluent in general > xHTML/CSS web design. Anyway, I use jQuery Tabs for the carousel on > my site's homepage since I had prior experience with it. It works > just fine, though the only issue I'm having is that while the page is > loading, the divs holding the content for each tab all show on the > page, and on a slower connection it can hang like that for a few > seconds before the script pops them into place. > > It's much easier to show an example: > > http://www.grooveeffect.com/ > > Is there a way to optimize the tabs to prevent that? As far as I can > tell, the script is waiting for all the content to load before tab- > ifying the content...can I force it to simply put everything into tabs > whether loaded or not? > > If not, I'd be happy simply hiding all but the first tab until the > rest load up. > > Thanks! > > --Illah
