<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">That's basically how it works, but once the browser renders the <img> tag, it will start loading the image immediately, even if you replace that tag.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If it's a big image and you don't want to trigger it unless they don't have flash, you could use Javascript to load it...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>set up your embed like:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>var so = new SWFObject(...);</DIV><DIV>if (!so.write('content')) {</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>// do stuff to load the image</DIV><DIV>}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>then maybe just include a <noscript> tag in there with the image for people without javascript and for google.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 25, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Greg Brant wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="533304812-25042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">What would happen if the SWFObject.write() replaced the DOM object that containd the image tag?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="533304812-25042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="533304812-25042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">and thefore removed the image from the DOM of the page?</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <HR tabindex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com [<A href="mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com">mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Geoff Stearns<BR><B>Sent:</B> 25 April 2006 13:45<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:swfobject@lists.deconcept.com">swfobject@lists.deconcept.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SWFObject] Multiple Flash files and images, download issues???<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>the browser will make 2 requests for the image... <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>if the image is done loading before the flash movie sends the request for it, it should be cached and the user won't have to download it again, but if it's a big image, and it's still loading in the html page when the flash movie sends the request, it will be downloaded twice.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>this behavior might vary from browser to browser, though... </DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Michael Ypes wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Book LET" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: " let??="" book="" sans="" charlotte="">Say I got ten images on a page but I want them to display in flash so I get some rollover effect or something but the alternate content is just the image. Will the browser download it the image twice. Once for the alternate content and one from the flash file loading in the image. Not sure how caching and so on would work in this situation. Any ideas as I want to do it but I don’t want to cane my bandwidth or the users…<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Book LET" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: " let??="" book="" sans="" charlotte=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET" color="black" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: " sans="" charlotte="" let?;color:black?="" caps="" small="">Cheers<BR><BR>Michael Ypes <BR><U1:PERSONNAME u2:st="on">The 3<SUP>rd</SUP> Room</U1:PERSONNAME></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET" color="black" size="1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: " sans="" charlotte="" let?;color:black?="" caps="" small=""> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET" color="black" size="1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: " sans="" charlotte="" let?;color:black?="" caps="" small=""><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET" color="black" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: " sans="" charlotte="" let?;color:black?="" caps="" small=""><BR>e: <A href="mailto:michael.ypes@the3rdroom.com">michael.ypes@the3rdroom.com</A><BR>w: <A href="http://www.the3rdroom.com/">http://www.the3rdroom.com</A></SPAN></FONT><U><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET" color="black" size="1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: " sans="" charlotte="" let?;color:black?="" caps="" small=""><BR><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></U><U><FONT face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET" color="black" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: " sans="" charlotte="" let?;color:black?="" caps="" small=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></U></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">_______________________________________________</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SWFObject mailing list</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><BR>–––<BR>Inbound email: This email has been scanned for all viruses by MessageLabs (CMWN)<BR> <BR> –––<BR> This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email<BR> Security System. 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