RE: New Flash test site

[Chris Jester (CTS Technical)]

Yeah but is someone who is from home on a 14.4 or 28.8 connection it will be

slow. Unless the user sits and waits for the entire site to download first.

Even with flashes vector graphics it has been my experience that not only

the modem but video plays a factor in how fast the movie moves.


	-----Original Message-----

	From:	John Croteau [SMTP:

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]

	Sent:	Monday, May 18, 1998 5:17 PM

	To:

flashershocker [dot] com

	Subject:	Re: New Flash test site


	Hi Alan and Chris,


	Chris wrote

	>> For the Internet anything over 100k is too much.


	    This is not true for Flash. Any file size up to about 500K is

just

	fine IF it streams. For the general net it should stream when

	connections are no faster than about 20K bits per second (2.5K bytes

per

	second). This is a good average for 28,800 or 33,600 Web

connections. 

	    What this means is a file of 750K will take 5 Minutes on an

average

	standard internet connection. If you don't have 5 minutes of

preliminary

	content then it isn't streaming for most people on the Web.

	    You should use Wait-for-Frame Animation loops to compensate for

	slower connection speeds, a not uncommon situation even if you have

high

	speed connections. The best use of Wait-for-Frame Loops are ones

that

	the viewer isn't aware of. Loading bars and other Wait mechanisms

are

	most precise when using Wait-for-frame Loops.


	   Alan's site is impressive but it's size is substantually larger

than

	it should be if it is meant for the Web in its present form. But,

Alan

	warned us and said 'it's quite a big swf-file at the moment'

indicating

	he knows it is large (maybe he should have specified its size). As

for

	the content it would seem like if properly optimized, it should be

more

	like 100K than 700K. If Alan's site is meant for a Company Intranet

or

	users with pipeline T1 connections then the size is of little

importance

	and you can use higher quality sound and images with less

optimization

	needed. 

	  

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