Question

I am loading remote images periodically with an Image object to be later drawn on a canvas. The Image object is created in JS only, it doesn’t exist in DOM.

The code is working fine with Chrome and Firefox. In Opera the problem is that the browser seems to always switch to “loading mode” whenever image source is modified, i.e. the cursor changes to the “waiting” one and Opera adds “Elements: X/Y” to the address bar.

Here’s the testing code: http://jsfiddle.net/nZntU/3/

Does anyone know any workaround for this Opera behavior?

Answer 1

As @graste pointed out, Opera 12.50 has this bug fixed. From their change log:

CORE-43199 Opera should not show loading indication for images not in the DOM