Preload Page

The clas­sic ani­mated gif, or the “load­ing…” text, could be now eas­ily replaced thanks to this new jQuery plug-in.

Spe­cially suited for a page loads of images, the final result showed in this demo looks really nice and flashy.

Fea­tures:

• Pre­load a whole web page.
• Pre­load a part of the page.
• Gets all images, <img> tags and background-image of your CSS
• Easy to implement.
• Adjustable load­ing bar.
• Tested in Fire­fox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, IE7, IE8 and IE6 (script will be ignored in IE6 though).

Full post, demo, and source code, are in Gaya Design blog.

To be hon­est, I instantly had a thought about this tech­nique:  wasn’t the DOM­Con­tent­Loaded event pur­pose the one to avoid peo­ple wait­ing a full page down­load before they’re allowed to inter­act with it? … never mind, we can­not do much in any case in front of images ded­i­cated layouts.

Fonte:GayaDe­sign