jquery cycle ipad memory limit

jquery cycle ipad memory limit

I'm using jquery to create some large slideshows of large images (~50 images at 1000x500px each).

I found out that when viewing some of these large slidehows on the ipad, it would only load about 30 of the images and then not load any more because apparently mobile safari has a limit on how much image data it will load on a single page.

Can someone offer a suggestion on how to best approach this issue?

I thought about removing slides that aren't currently being shown, but from what I've read I can't do this without recreating the slideshow.

The other option I've considered is setting the images to a very small image initially and then updating the src attributes as the slideshow advances, but I'm not currently having luck with that, when i update the src attributes, it doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks!