"blank page" before new page loaded
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:47 am
hi
this may be a slightly stupid question, and has nothing to do w/ php, so this could easily be the wrong place to ask it, but...
when a link is clicked in the site i am developing, the page goes blank for a second. the entire page is reloaded (i was using iframes, but had majjjor issues with resizing those to fit content on mac browsers). i assumed that considering all the images would be cached, this wouldn't be such a problem (it is quite a graphically-intensive site, though). i realllly don't want to go back to the issues that i had with iframes, and the client would be totally okay with the site as it is if this "blank page" issue were to be solved.
is there not a meta-tag or something that can delay a site's rendering until there is something to render? why do some sites (sometimes ones with heavy graphics, that load the full page on every mouseclick) not have this blank page effect?
the site is accessing a database, too, so i'm thinking it could have something to do with the connecting to the database after every click.
anyway, thanks in advance for any response.
this may be a slightly stupid question, and has nothing to do w/ php, so this could easily be the wrong place to ask it, but...
when a link is clicked in the site i am developing, the page goes blank for a second. the entire page is reloaded (i was using iframes, but had majjjor issues with resizing those to fit content on mac browsers). i assumed that considering all the images would be cached, this wouldn't be such a problem (it is quite a graphically-intensive site, though). i realllly don't want to go back to the issues that i had with iframes, and the client would be totally okay with the site as it is if this "blank page" issue were to be solved.
is there not a meta-tag or something that can delay a site's rendering until there is something to render? why do some sites (sometimes ones with heavy graphics, that load the full page on every mouseclick) not have this blank page effect?
the site is accessing a database, too, so i'm thinking it could have something to do with the connecting to the database after every click.
anyway, thanks in advance for any response.