Quote Originally Posted by blackhalo View Post
No disrespect, but I don't really understand your reasoning.

Are you saying images are cached (in the browser) when someone loads the page?
Then that would be pre-loading...

What I don't understand is "defeat the purpose and functionality"...
isn't part of the purpose to have the hover effect load quickly?

If someone has to wait for it to load...THAT defeats the purpose.

Since it's very unlikely every image will be hovered immediately when the user hits the page,
having those hover images loading in the background would cache them locally,
making the effect faster...increasing functionality.

Or is "not feasible"...as in, it CAN'T be done?
As in it's pointless...the images are loaded as if they were placed in a regular image tag. There's not point in pre-loading them. The hover effect just, let's say brings them in to view. In otherwords they're already loaded when the page load completes, not just when you hover over them.

Pre-loading all the images wouldn't be feasible, or ideal.