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AJAX-style image loading using CSS

# Linked to 17 November 2007, 03:37 in by Sam Brown

AJAX let’s you show a nice loader when doing a XMLHttpRequest. It’s great for the visitor, because it can see that something is loading. Bad thing for the web developer is, is that AJAX is hard to learn. So here’s a small little CSS trick for some great user experience, making it look like you made an AJAX loader for images.

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown is a freelance interface designer and web standards developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sam's work can be seen at Massive Blue, blogs at Sam Brown and is on Twitter at @sambrown.