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Subject: Re: FLASH: preloading 82 10k movies
From: Laura Mollett
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 01:20:28 +0100

> I've looked at the Five100 tutorial and unless I'm missing something, I
> don't see why JavaScript is necessary to prevent a movie from playing. Just
> start it with a few blank frames, the last of which has a Stop action. It
> will only play when TellTargeted to play. Adding JavaScript to the mix just
> increases the chance of the viewer not having the right stuff to make it work.

>> >Why should I have to download 820K to see 60K of what I want?

oh i thought there was going to be some way to avoid downloading the parts
you don't want, but still preload some of it or something... ok that doesn't
make sense, but i'm easily confused - looooong day :)

thanks anyway!
Laura

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