Asynchronously load images with jQuery

Question

I want to load external images on my page asynchronously using jQuery and I have tried the following:

$.ajax({ 
   url: \"http://somedomain.         


        

Answer 1

This works too ..

var image = new Image();
image.src = 'image url';
image.onload = function(e){
  // functionalities on load
}
$("#img-container").append(image);