Hide Until Page Finishes Loading

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by ng51online, Oct 10, 2007.

  1. #1
    Good afternoon all,

    I am looking for a example of a site with a "Hide Until Page Finishes Loading" feature, as I wanted to test whether it was SE friendly as I am looking to create a loading page for one of my clients.

    Many thanks,

    Si
     
    ng51online, Oct 10, 2007 IP
  2. jBud

    jBud Peon

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    #2
    what exactly do you want to hide?
     
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  3. jDare

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    #3
    I guess we all have our reasons for doing things but why would you want to do that? Personally, if I don't see any "loading action" from a site within a few seconds I'm gone. I think most people would be the same. Just curious....
     
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  4. Stomme poes

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    #4
    Certainly if the whole page were in one huge monstrous table, nothing would show up until the browser rendered the whole thing.

    Which isn't a good idea and I don't think you mean to hide the whole page, but that's the first thing that came to mind.
     
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  5. ecreate

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    #5
    Sounds like you want to preload your entire page. Preloading images using JS has been around some time, but I do agree with everyone else, I've never seen a good reason for its use.

    A quick google search brought up a few tutorials on HTML preloading. (None of the solutions were works of brilliance though)
     
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    soulscratch Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Stupid idea, unless you're creating some sort of application like Gmail. You could possibly use Javascript to generate that loading.gif everyone uses, and let it stay for 3-5 seconds or until the page//iframe//frame// whatever loads.
     
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  7. ng51online

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    Yeah, I am looking for an example, as a client of ours has a website with a flash splash page, however, we want to simply add a loading page, which appears whilst all of the images on the homepage are loading.

    When the images have loaded, the users gets shown the actual homepage, but I cannot see a good demo or example anywhere.

    Si
     
    ng51online, Oct 11, 2007 IP