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Created April 17, 2013 22:01
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Preloading images with Ajax.
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preload-images.js
window.onload = function() {
setTimeout(function() {
// XHR to request a JS and a CSS
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'http://domain.tld/preload.js');
xhr.send('');
xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'http://domain.tld/preload.css');
xhr.send('');
// preload image
new Image().src = "http://domain.tld/preload.png";
}, 1000);
};
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