Greetings,

First time append.

I have a dynamic page that can potentially contain thousands of links.
Each link has an onmouseover specified with Walter Zorn's Tool Tip
feature to pop up a small image. This has been working fine but I
noticed that a page with many links loads very slowly. I then realized
that the images that are used for the onmouseover pop ups are all
automatically being downloaded when the page initially loads.

I wouldn't expect these images to be referenced by the browser until an
onmouseover event occurs, but that does not seem to be the case.

I thought I could get around this by changing the Tool Tips to call a
JS function (that would eventually invoke a server side PHP to serve up
the image), instead of specifying an <img> tag in the Tool Tip, but the
JS function also gets called immediately when the page loads as well
(for each Tool Tip specified on the page).

I boiled a test page down to a few lines that shows the JS function
being invoked as soon as the page loads (the function just displays an
alert when called).

When this page is hit, the JS function automatically gets called three
times (once for each Tool Tip link in the html) ...

http://timegonebuy.com/ToolTipProb.html

This is an example of the onmouseover's I'm trying to use -

onmouseover="this.T_WIDTH=60;this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=0;this.T_PADDING=3;this.T_BORDERWIDTH=1;this.T_BORDERCOLOR='#000000';
this.T_BGCOLOR='#FFFAFA'; return escape(PopCPpic('image_1.jpg'))"

This support is invoked by including Walter's JS file and then coding a
"return escape" to invoke it.

Any insight anyone might have on why this is happening and/or any
suggestions on how I might get around the problem are most appreciated.
Thanks !!
Steve