jQuery lazy loading image with throttling?
<p>I've been given a design for a commercial affiliate-related website where the homepage has 2500+ images on it. Two directions I'm thinking about to ease the loading of the images is to utilize a lazy image loading script.</p>

<p>I've been messing with the jQuery JAIL (Async Image Loader) script. I have it set so that it loads all the visible images when the page loads. Then after a couple seconds it begins downloading all the rest of the images on the page that are below the fold. This is typically like 2400+ images.</p>

<p>The problem is that when the browser is told to download 2400 images it basically freezes up, or at least freezes up the scrollbar until it's done.</p>

<p>Are there any jQuery image loading scripts that are similar to the JAIL but that allow for some type of throttling? Anything really to help from freezing up the page.</p>

<p>I'm also looking into css sprites but for various technical reasons and time constraints it might not be feasible.</p>
