RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!

[Brack, Jeremy]

our entire company is PC-based.  We have 1 MAC and we only use it in the

printing department.  


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From: Muzak [

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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:20 PM

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Subject: Re: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!



>From a previous post I understood you're using a MAC. So the tool I

suggested (WebSpeedOptimizer) would do you any good. But maybe

it still does... I looked into some of the documentation and it can be used

as some kind of server. So, if you're in a network and

there's one PC you could install it on that and browse to it from your MAC

over the network, just like a webserver (you can set it

to any port you want).

I hope this is of any help.

Hell, instead of a 56k modem, make 'em buy a PC :-)


Muzak


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

From: "Brack, Jeremy" <

Jeremy [dot] Brackimgusa [dot] com

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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:59 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: flash load movie issues!!56k modem BANNED!



> Unfortunately, I was not exagerating.. my IT department knows very little

> about streaming technologies and Flash, so therefore they think that a T-1

> line is all I need to test websites on.  The bandwidth profiler is great

> when your doing basic testing, and Flash movies without imported movie

> clips..  But when you start testing the bandwidth profiler on Flash sites

> with a lot of scripting, imported movie clips, sound, music, scenes, and

> complex animations.. then the results of the profiler are no longer

> reliable.  The Bandwidth profiler lists all imported movie clips as less

> than 1 byte of data, which is obviously incorrect.  You also have to

realize

> that a lot of these websites will also contain plain HTML, javascript,

jpgs,

> gifs, and other non-flash content that also need to be taken into account

> when your testing the download process..  Will a browser not load anything

> until it compiles a javascript command?  Will a web page be barren of all

> images until a flash movie is completed its entire animation?  These are

> things that the profiler cant do.  On top of all of that, the internet is

a

> congested place, and seeing how a 56k modem reacts to varying conditions

as

> it downloads your website is the best and only way to truely know how your

> website will look to an ordinary visitor.  A 56k modem software similator

is

> a step in the right direction, but there is no substitute for a real 56k

> modem.

>

> To make matters worse.. the clients look at our photoshop generated jpg

> mock-ups and assume that they are completely functional websites... so we

> now end up with huge Flash websites that incorporate tons of bitmaps where

> we originally wanted vector based art.  and with no 56k modem to test

these

> huge websites, its getting way out of hand.



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