Hi I have this requirement from a customer who wants me to put up all the facebook's users pictures on 1 page... Each picture is 50x50 px and averages upto 1,300 bytes each... I tried loading all those images in divs but the size of the number pf pics is co enormous that it takes a very very long time to load. Any suggestions on how I can do this?
Does your customer really understand what he/she is asking? it doesn't sound practical. I just realised that you cant possibly mean all the users of facebook, lol How many is it that the client is expecting to be in place?
Dude facebook must have over thirty million users if it's bigger than myspace. You should do maybe 10k pics per page so divide 10k out of 50 million at least to get a good average number of pages your client can expect. && call her a nub.
By the time someone finished downloading the page it would be out of date because of people updating their profile No way can he have them all on one page. Some people would use up their monthly download allowance before the page finished.
uoi should look into using 'lazy load', its a script that loads the images as you scroll down the page heres an example http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload/enabled.html