Tongue and Groove was having problems with a Flash image preloader in the AOL custom web browser. For some reason AOL returns a total bytes loaded value of more than the total value of the actual bytes of the image. They were able to ‘fix’ this by having the preloader begin an image fade in when the total bytes loaded is greater than or equal to the actual total bytes of the image.
A better idea might include a browser check up front and if the browser is AOL do the funky fade in, but if it isn’t use a normal better preloader.
1. You mis-understood my solution. The solution isn't to fade an image in, the image fading in is what happens once the image has finished loading. The problem is that the image was never fading in because AOL never knew it was loaded.
The solution is to use GREATER THAN or equal to, as opposed to the traditional equal to, because for some reason AOL is seeing the total as greater than the actual total.
Posted at 11:29AM on Nov 9th 2005 by Jason Gill