# Preload external images

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preload-external-images/113652>\
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**Created:** [June 20, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preload-external-images/113652 "2004-06-20T14:59:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mdawson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdawson)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preload-external-images/113652/1 "2004-06-20T14:59:33Z")

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[http://www.rui-camilo.de](http://www.rui-camilo.de)  
Hi ,

i saw this site above and wanted to know how you can design a preloader to indicate when pictures are ready to view like the example. Do they use xml…?

can you help as i just can’t figure this out. I would like to load images from a folder if possible.

Thanks