FLASH: Whats wrong with the Perfect Storm flash site?

[Michael Penney]

I didn't make this site or anything, I just noticed that something is

horribly wrong with it. I was wondering if anyone knew or had a guess what

is wrong with it, though. I've visited several times today, from both PC

(WinNT and 98SE) and Mac(OS9), and it has caused a severe, progressive

system slowdown eventually needing to force quit the browser in order to

keep working on the computer. It starts off very nicely, loads pretty fast

and all, but if you keep it up for more than about 5 minutes (I was writing

an epinions review of the movie) it starts to slow down and eventually the

browser just freezes. I think it might be loading movie after movie without

unloading anything? There are lots of sound files, so maybe it is just

filling up the C drive on the windows machines, but the same thing happens

on my Mac with virtual memory off and 1+ GB free on the drive.


I'm asking because I'd like see more sites like this using flash, and I'd

love to design some, however I sure don't want to replicate whatever is

wrong with this site.


I've heard that just about anybody with Flash can claim to be a developer

and make big bucks in Hollywood doing movie sites, maybe this is an example

of what can go wrong with inexperienced folks using the program?


Thanks!


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Michael Penney

Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

BigTimeWeb.Com




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