MSIE caching

[VidarMol]

I'm developing some simple web-pages for a company selling machinery, and I have created a simple horisontal roll-over menu using images. I want to preload the images into the MSIE cache directory in order to keep the menu working fast and smooth. Preloading works fine, all the image files are stored in the cache directory, but MSIE doesn't use them. The pages contain links to other web-pages and images, opening them in new browser windows. When closing these, and returning to my web-pages, MSIE loads the menu images from the internet, not using the files already in the cache directory. With slow connections, this looks really awful. Is there a way around this?

Here's a link to the web-page:

http://home.online.no/~molokken/Gitmark/Index.htm

To see the problem, choose "Landbruk" from the menu, click on one of the links found on that page, close the new browser window, and try selecting from the menu again. If you have a fast connection, the problem isn't too noticeable, but slow it down and you'll see.

Also on the same host is my own webpage, and caching images works absolutely fine:

http://home.online.no/~molokken/Index.htm

Hope someone can answer this question. Thanks.

Vidar Moløkken
Norway

 

[geolite]

MSIE doesn't use preload on Your page - neither does any other browser.
Tested with MSIE-5, Opera-7.20, Mozilla-1.4.1 & Firebird-.6.
Design unstable in Mozilla / Firebird, looks mostly all right in IE & Opera.
Don't find much in Your javascript for good preloading.
Take another look at it.
Sjekk at the bottom (source) of this page, it works real fine for me.

http://www.gunlaug.no/

 

[VidarMol]

The preloading works. All the menu images are loaded into the cache dir on my local PC (look at the source code for the menu frame). It's just that MSIE doesn't use the images stored in the cache dir. It downloads them over the internet everytime a new browser window has been opened and closed.

 

[geolite]

I see no delay (via modem) on Your memu upon closing other window.
No new loading of images from net.

Local problem maybe?

 

[VidarMol]

That's relly great news. I'll check with some of my friends also, and find out if it's my browser setup which causes the problem. Thanks for the support. The pages has now been uploaded to

http://www.gitmark.no.