title: best practice for loading large image gallery
body: <p>I have an unexpectedly large gallery of 130 images. Originally, my approach was to fade in the gallery on <code>$(window).load();</code></p>
  
  <p>Clearly this is laughable at 130 files.. And really, nobody wants to deal with that many http requests anyway.</p>
  
  <p>So that's my "subjective question that's likely to be closed."</p>
  
  <p>I'm reluctantly thinking that maybe I should load only 20 or so images and then ajax-in more as the user progresses in the gallery. But that is uncharted and scary sounding.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your advice!</p>