Do the Zoomify Components support image preloading?
The Zoomify Viewer Component is specifically designed to load only the image data which is required for the current view that the user has zoomed and panned to. Idle time preloading possibilities present an obvious potential performance boost, however, typical user behavior associated with zoom-and-pan image viewing does not, in fact, present significant idle time for sophisticated implementations to leverage. Alternately, it may in some cases be desirable to preload a specified set of image tiles representing a specific desired initial or sequential set of views. Where designers or developers wish to implement such functionality in their own applications the simplest approach may be to use multiple instances of the Zoomify Viewer Component and use the Zoomify ActionScript API to setView() on each. These components can then be revealed as appropriate with their content ready for immediate viewing.
