[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] [Plugin: NEXTGen Gallery]Get images asynchroneously

  • kimg

    (@kimg)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    i have a site written in WP and using NextGen for gallery display. It works ok but my problem is that the user doesn’t see anything until all images are downloaded.

    since some connections are quite slow it means the user stares at a black screen for quite a while. not very professional.

    Is it possible to download the images in the background so to speak. So when the first picture is downloaded it’s displayed for the user while the rest of the images downloads unnoticed.

    i’ve looked in the library ngg.js and as far as i can tell all images are fetched using jquery.get which isn’t asynchronous.

    is that correct?

    best regards
    kim gabrielsen

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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  • Thread Starter kimg

    (@kimg)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    does anybody know if this is possible?

    please let me know my customer is awaiting an answer

    br

    kim

    ldaniels

    (@ldaniels)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Are you saying the Site is not loading instantly or the Gallery is not loading instantly?

    I have 3 sites running NextGEN with WordPress and they all load instantly with no lag time for images to load.
    One of them has 30 galleries grouped under 6 albums. There is no lag time loading either the site or the galleries except for one gallery that has 150 images. The lightbox window for that gallery takes a while to load. That is easily solved by splitting the gallery, not only for load time, but to prevent visual fatigue on behalf of the viewer (“isn’t this gallery over yet???)
    Make sure, also, that NextGEN-> Options-> Gallery-> Add hidden images is UNchecked, otherwise you will have a long load time with galleries.

    I hope this is what you are asking.

    WP Test Site is just a sandbox site with a few galleries. The galleries load very quicky. (The site itself is not pretty – just used for testing items)

    SF Windsports is a live site that has 30 galleries, including the November 2009 gallery with 150 images. All the galleries load quickly except for the big one which takes a while.

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