Re: FLASH: Achieving True Flash Enlightenment

[Karen Parry]

In reply to:

>I'm somewhat of a purist, though, so take it with a grain of salt, but I

>think you'd be better off in the long run doing everything in flash, and

>then making a sub-standard HTML version on the side.



>From MM website

(http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/how/expert/optimization.html):


>Some problems can be handled best by your web page layout. For example,

>several small movies that make use of several pages and a frameset

>document can sometimes communicate the same idea as one large movie in a

>single web page.

>

>Consider redesigning the movie to communicate your ideas in a different

>way that consumes less bytes. Can the movie be divided into several

>smaller movies? Is there a way to communicate the same idea with fewer

>pictures or in less time? Striving to keep things simple generally results

>in a cleaner design and leaner Flash movies.


Questions:


1] So, according to this it is better to create many smaller files than one

large one. Is this still the case even when preloading?


2] Also, if a sybol is downloaded from one movie, and is used again in

another movie, does that mean the browser/flash knows it was already

downloaded or will it download that symbol again?


3] If it knows it is already downloaded, then what happens if two different

symbols have the same name?




Cheers,

Karen


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Karen Parry/Black Graphics

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