Re: FLASH: Close window / MOVIE SIze / Chris

[Daniel Votino]

>Also, what's considered too large for download? My whole SWF is 340 k

>with a preload animation to keep you occupied ... is that too big? ...

>basically the sounds and music made it big.

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>Cheers



Chris . . . the demo at www.flashbrothers.com is just under 700K and has

been approved at 28.8 modem speeds with "most" connections using that modem.

The key is not how big or small it is though your aim is to make it as small

as possible, but rather making sure the viewer does not have to knowingly

endure a lengthy download process.  There is no set way of doing this from

my experience and with each project it is different on how you approach the

viewers experience upon entry.  "How do we get all that to the viewer

without them thinking that they are being stalled for a considearble amount

of time?"  My experience is that IE users have the ability to skip

"entertaining preloaders" on future visits so long as they have at least sat

through it once, their cache hasnt expired and the swf files have not been

changed or edited on the server side in any way.  In the end, when we have

all mastered minimalism as second nature to out artisitic personalities, we

will be granted more bandwidth from the technology gods and then begin to

add all the stuff we really wish we could do now.  It shall make us better

artists in the end I believe!


~daniel out




Love & Rockets,     Daniel Votino

Project Manager, The Flash Brothers Design Group

510 E. Francis Ave. Level0 Suite# DESCRY, Spokane, WA 99207

509.755.9904 / 509.484.8466 / FAX: 509.484.8461

www.flashbrothers.com

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Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 9:51 AM

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