Files blink on display

[gorilla1]

I have a directory of gif files and I index into it and display the file using readfile. Works fine. Now I would like to add a border or background, so I echo"<img src=..." and a little html instead of the readfile. Works, too, but one can see first the a small box flash in the browser and then the full image fill in, if one watches closely enough. Is there a way to avoid this effect?

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[firepages]

sorry dude but I dont quite get what you mean ? - got a URL ?

[gorilla1]

I don't have a server I can put this on. But I have seen the effect frequently with php slideshows on the web. Here is one (which I dont know is actually php, but it is precisely the same effect). Sorry for subject matter, but it is the first I found:
<fp_edit>Sorry Gorrilla but I had to loose the link ;)</fp_edit>

Ah, sorry. How about this one?
http://www.artring.co.uk/photography/?a=29966&d=0&n=03

By the way, just stumbled on this function, and I'm wondering if specifying the image size up front might make a difference: getimagesize

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[firepages]

I am still not 100% sure about what you mean by a 'flash' as such, though if you mean when viewing the larger image then maybe I do, hard to tell, in the case of the gallery you linked to I think its the border of the image resizing itself to fit the picture ???

the only thing I can think of is are you setting the width and height attributes of your image tags ? if nothing else the page will load faster with them set which may help some + the image border should already be set at the correct width & height, though whether this is really the problem I dont know.

you can use getimagesize() to grab the width and height attributes so if

$yaks=getimagesize('./some/image.jpg');

then $yaks[3]; contains the ` width="300" height="300" ` string.

Whether you can use that in conjunction with readfile() I am not sure ?

[gorilla1]

Yes, Firepages, that is it exactly. OK, I will try that. Thnx.

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