A. Let us download the images to a specific directory on our local computers. E.g. C:DPChallenge Then a special set of voting pages could reference the images locally. That way the voting pages will come up much faster.
B. Or let us download the voting pages AND images as HTML pages. The HTML pages would reference the images locally and the voting form/button would still point at the voting.asp page for validation and processing.
... in other words, let us host the images on our machines, it might also lower your bandwidth requirements! if everyone voted this way.
Just a thought. I hope one of the ideas is feasible.
* This message has been edited by the author on 8/23/2002 12:18:30 PM.
Or how about a "Preload Challenge Images" button that preloads all of the challenge images-- so you can click it and walk away while it loads all of images into your browser's cache?
Originally posted by sohr: Or how about a "Preload Challenge Images" button that preloads all of the challenge images-- so you can click it and walk away while it loads all of images into your browser's cache?
It's actually not too difficult to implement:
The Motley Fool implements something similar to this in their Fireboards area. While you are reading a message it preloads the next one. It might very well be useful to implement that here as well.
Another option is to open multiple browser windows, and alternate between the two (or more) windows for voting. I use this method even with a high-speed connection and the time savings is significant.
somthing I realized is that after you make a comment it takes you back to the page with ALL the photos on it. sometimes it reloads and sometimes it doesn't. You don't have to wait for all the photos to reload before you chose the next photo to comment on. makes it a lot faster for me that way.
Is it possible that the main voting page could be split into smaller pages perhaps of 50 or so images? (giving us the choice of this would be really nice!)
On my 56K modem the page seems to sit there loading for a while before deciding not to bother and giving a Page Not Found error. As more and more people join the challenges we're going to soon be loading 200 images on that page.
It's fine on the broadband connection in work though. I just hope my boss doesn't mind me voting on all those photos from the office!
Originally posted by mikeys_bistro: A. Let us download the images to a specific directory on our local computers. E.g. C:DPChallenge Then a special set of voting pages could reference the images locally. That way the voting pages will come up much faster.
We've actually got a 90% complete offline voting application, but it probably won't see the light of day for a month or two while we get other things together.
from the 'thumbmails view', in IE you can do ctrl click to open the 'voting window' in a new window (or right click on the link) , that way you keep your main thumbmail page open without having to refresh it if it's something you like to do.
