Image display method

An image display method for dividing an image larger than a display region of a Web browser and preferentially downloading each divided image at least a part of which is contained in said display region of said Web browser from a server and displaying said downloaded divided images in said display region of said Web browser, comprising:

• downloading an image to a viewer,
• setting an arrangement consisting of plural number of frame elements on said Web browser, said frame elements corresponding to the display region to be fitted with and to display the divided images contained within a limited range of image area than the entire image in a predetermined positional relation to the display region of said Web browser, including the divided image at least a part of which is contained in said display region of said Web browser, the divided image at corresponding position being fitted into each frame element and displayed or prepared to be displayed,
• when a relative movement of the image with respect to the display region of said Web browser is instructed, calculating the position of each frame element to be moved with respect to the display region of said Web browser and moving the frame element to the calculated position,
• deleting each frame element which leaves away from the display region of said Web browser along with the relative movement of the image and adding each frame element which approaches the display region of said Web browser along with the relative movement of the image, so that the position of the arrangement of said frame elements changes its position with respect to the image, and
• fitting each divided image at corresponding position of each added frame element into the added frame element and displaying or preparing to display the newly fitted divided image.