How would you make the images load before the text on a webpage?

http://forums.asp.net/p/1579444/3975691.aspx

This seems to be the trick, in part at least. Pages load all at once, well not technically all at once, but with fast connections it sure seems that way. A Javascript seems to be the best bet.

Use javascript to load your site. Meaning, no static content. Everything is dynamic, like facebook. So, load the loader, then let it load the images, and once they're done, load the text.

However, why are you trying to do this? Generally you want to hide everything until both images and text are loaded, and then display both at the same time. Is that what you wanted?

In that case, just render everything in a hidden element, and onload, make it visible.

This should be possible, but it might not be very easy. I'm thinking perhaps you could use Javascript to create an Image object with the same source as the background, and then set its onload to a function that then displays the text. I can't 100% guarantee that this will work, though.