Subj : Re: Object replacement
To   : Andrew Chum <chum@powertv.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Jun 23 2003 05:49 pm

Andrew Chum wrote:

> <script>
> var myimg = new Image();
> myimg.src = "b.gif";
> </script>
> <img name="img1" src="a.gif">
> <script>
> document.img1 = myimg;     // Is it legal?
>
>
> Can I do object replacement like above? My guess is that object 
> replacement is not allowed. 


You're posting to the wrong newsgroup.  Read 
http://www.mozilla.org/community.html and see the followup-to: header 
and cross-posting on this message.

You use new Image to preload an image, and then set the tag-defined 
image element's src property to the *url* that you preloaded.

/be

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -AC
>

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