I don't love not being able to tell when something is a cast or a function call!
It was obvious. url:Object was the first parameter right above that line =]
I'd like to know what Michael did that supposedly shaved seconds off his load time. :-)
Presumably he had a hell of a lot of images being loaded, because most picture ident methods don't check for much... usually 12-20 bytes of header info and then quits out... it depends on how many image modules you have and how complicated they are. I havn't seen any complicated ones though.