Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I am using Google Maps V3 API to create a google map where the markers change their marker icons on mouseover. However i notice the icons flicker once the first time the user does it to that specific marker, and to every marker, which I guess is due to the mouseover images taking some time to download.
To solve this, I am thinking of preloading the mouseover icon images. How can I do this?
I’m unsure if this works in every browser, but on modern browsers (FF 3.6+, IE8/9 (I think), Safari/Chrome), with cache enabled, simply adding the elements to the DOM loads them and caches them (i.e. put them on the page in a hidden div), so the next time they’re requested, its from your cache, not the server, totally eliminating the flash.