Use a blank.gif as the src of images, and include the width and height of the final image.
HTML:
<img src="blank.gif" class="lazy" data-src="http://cdn.css-tricks.com/images/full-size.jpg" width="240" height="152"></a>
JavaScript:
/* lazyload.js (c) Lorenzo Giuliani
* MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
*
* expects a list of:
* `<img src="blank.gif" data-src="my_image.png" width="600" height="400" class="lazy">`
*/ !function(window){
var $q = function(q, res){
if (document.querySelectorAll) {
res = document.querySelectorAll(q);
} else {
var d=document
, a=d.styleSheets[0] || d.createStyleSheet();
a.addRule(q,'f:b');
for(var l=d.all,b=0,c=[],f=l.length;b<f;b++)
l[b].currentStyle.f && c.push(l[b]); a.removeRule(0);
res = c;
}
return res;
}
, addEventListener = function(evt, fn){
window.addEventListener
? this.addEventListener(evt, fn, false)
: (window.attachEvent)
? this.attachEvent('on' + evt, fn)
: this['on' + evt] = fn;
}
, _has = function(obj, key) {
return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(obj, key);
}
; function loadImage (el, fn) {
var img = new Image()
, src = el.getAttribute('data-src');
img.onload = function() {
if (!! el.parent)
el.parent.replaceChild(img, el)
else
el.src = src; fn? fn() : null;
}
img.src = src;
} function elementInViewport(el) {
var rect = el.getBoundingClientRect() return (
rect.top >= 0
&& rect.left >= 0
&& rect.top <= (window.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight)
)
} var images = new Array()
, query = $q('img.lazy')
, processScroll = function(){
for (var i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {
if (elementInViewport(images[i])) {
loadImage(images[i], function () {
images.splice(i, i);
});
}
};
}
;
// Array.prototype.slice.call is not callable under our lovely IE8
for (var i = 0; i < query.length; i++) {
images.push(query[i]);
}; processScroll();
addEventListener('scroll',processScroll); }(this);