Loading CSS background images before normal images?

Question

I have a ruby on rails web app, and in some views i have many heavy images( ) to render .The are generated in a Helper.

Answer 1

Solution: Do not use the img tag.

1. Create a sprite containing all your images. Load the sprite in your application.html layout once.
2. Use data uris to transmit the data directly in the html. See http://css-tricks.com/data-uris/