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How browsers load images

25th July 2002

From the stuff-I-never-knew department: Bill Posters explains how browsers load images simultaneously on the SitePoint forums, in response to a question about getting images to load in a specific order.

Posted 25th July 2002 at 3:44 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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