CUNY Academic Commons

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Commit a49a250 excludes lazyloading for the first slider image.

Let me know if that is enough to resolve this issue.

Thanks, Ray. I'll look at this change as soon as I get a chance. In terms of the remaining images, I was thinking more something like "Delayed Loading of Images" or "Event to Trigger Loading" on the docs pages of the lazyload plugin: http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload In other words, trigger the swapout of all of the slides' placeholders before they are displayed.

FWIW i'm seeing the same problem with the loading of the slider. tested it on a PC running Chrome, Firefox, Safari.
Chrome -- had to force refresh to make images show
Firefox -- showed gray between images
Safari -- showed gray between images
although i'm on wifi, the connection is pretty fast (have turbo internet).

My original ticket was filed from a site where I was over a pretty fast wifi network (didn't measure speed, but other sites seemed to load relatively quickly). Back here at the GC on a wired connection, the Commons slider seems to be loading fine, even though I did see a brief flash of gray background even then.

In terms of the remaining images, I was thinking more something like "Delayed Loading of Images" or "Event to Trigger Loading"

I'm already using "Event to Trigger Loading". When the slide comes into view, it loads the corresponding image. I guess we could preload the next image as well to prevent the gray placeholder from showing up for the next image.

showed gray between images

even though I did see a brief flash of gray background even then.

The brief flash of gray is intentional when using lazyloading. We use a placeholder gray image for the background, when the slider image is supposed to show, it is loaded and then replaces the gray image.

If we don't like gray as a placeholder, it can be white.

If we don't like gray as a placeholder, it can be white.

No, that's fine -- the problem is just when they don't load. Maybe we should put this on hold and see whether anyone else reports the issue or whether other members of the team experience this.

I noticed it today, using Chrome. I switched to Firefox, which was fine. Then switched back to Chrome in same browser session - still no images. Closed and reopened Chrome, and all images loaded fine. I was using Windows on a WiFi connection.