imagesLoaded seems like the best solution (at the time of writing, Nov 2014) to detect whether an image is loaded or not.
I found that imagesLoaded library has the following characteristics:
- license: MIT License
- dependencies: none
- weight (minified & gzipped) : 7kb minified (light!)
- download builder (helps to cut weight) : no need, already tiny
- on Github : YES
- community & contributors : pretty big, 4000+ members, although only 13 contributors
- history & contributions : stable as relatively old (since 2010) but still active project
All the above features point into the direction of a very high quality product. However, there is a couple of information I still cannot find explicitly mentioned nor on the official website imagesloaded.desandro.com, nor on the Github page github.com/desandro/imagesloaded:
- what is the browser support?
- what is the device support?
Even though I assume the answer to the 2nd question being obvious, I would appreciate a confirmation.
EDIT: I just remembered this answer mentioned it working on IE7+ https://stackoverflow.com/a/19959809/759452, further feedback is still welcome though
EDIT 2: I just found another source saying it does not support IE7, this time by the creator of the library himself, see message from "desandro on 30 Nov 2012" on github.com/desandro/imagesloaded/issues/16
