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Displaying/scrolling through heaps of pictures in the browser

- by user347256

I want to be able to browse through heaps of images in the browser, fast. THe easy way (just load 2000 images and scroll) slows down the scrolling a lot, assumedly because there's too much images to be kept in memory. I'd love to hear thoughts on strategies to be able to quickly scroll through 10000s of images (as if you were on your desktop) in the browser. What would expected bottlenecks be? How to address them? How to fake things so that the user experience is still good? Examples in the wild?

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JQuery selector: pass on id from array into function

- by user347256

I have a list of items <div id="item1">somestuff</div> <div id="item2">somestuff</div> <div id="item3">somestuff</div> When someone clicks on one of these, I need to take some actions based on the id (the number). Let's say hide it. How can I make the function generic, and how can I pass the id into the function? $(document).ready(function() { $("#item-howcanImakethisselectorgeneric?").click(function () { $("#item-andhowcanIpasshteidintohere?").hide(); } } I'm a javascript/jquery newbie, any help (including rtfm) appreciated.

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Create ordering in a MySQL table without using a number (because then it's hard to put something in

- by user347256

I have a long list of items (say, a few million items) in a mysql table, let's call it mytable and it has the field mytable.itemid. The items are given an order, and can be re=ordered by the user by drag and drop. If I add a field called mytable.order and just put numbers in them, it creates problems: what if I want to move an item between 2 other items? Then all the order fields have to be updated? That seems like a nightmare. Is there a (scalable) way to add order to a table that is different from just giving every item a number, order by that, and do loads of SQL queries everytime the order is changed?

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