+ Often pages will have a number of images below the fold, hidden from the user's view. + These are prime candidates to load with the ImageLoader Utility. +
+ ++ All the images in this example belong to the same group, and each loads immediately only when it appears above, + or within the specified distance (25px) of, the page fold. +
+ +Loading Images Below the Fold
+ ++ You can easily have images load immediately if they are above the fold while delaying the load of images below the fold. + This saves you from loading any images that the user can't see because they are beyond her browser's viewable area. +
+ +
+ All we need is one group, and we specify its foldDistance attribute to 25 (25px).
+ Any group with this attribute set will, at the DOM ready state, examine the page coordinates of all images registered
+ to that group. Any images located above the fold, or no farther than the specified distance below the fold, will load immediately.
+ The rest will be checked again at any scroll or resize event and be loaded only when they're near enough
+ to the fold.
+
var foldGroup = new Y.ImgLoadGroup({ name: 'fold group', foldDistance: 25 });
+foldGroup.registerImage({ domId: 'img1', srcUrl: 'http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/assets/examples/exampleimages/small/museum.jpg' });
+foldGroup.registerImage({ domId: 'img2', srcUrl: 'http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/assets/examples/exampleimages/small/uluru.jpg' });
+foldGroup.registerImage({ domId: 'img3', srcUrl: 'http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/assets/examples/exampleimages/small/katatjuta.jpg' });
+foldGroup.registerImage({ domId: 'img4', srcUrl: 'http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/assets/examples/exampleimages/small/morraine.jpg' });
+foldGroup.registerImage({ domId: 'img5', srcUrl: 'http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/assets/examples/exampleimages/small/japan.jpg' });
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+ When you specify a foldDistance value, scroll and resize triggers are added to the
+ group automatically. Thus you will typically not need to set any triggers for the group explicitly.
+
+ How do you know that the images below the fold are, in fact, not loaded immediately? There are several tools available to + monitor the HTTP requests of your browser, including Firebug for Firefox and HTTPWatch for IE. With these tools you can + monitor precisely when each image on a page is loaded. +
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