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Subject: RE: FLASH: skip intro - advice please
From: Chad Kraeft
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:36:19 +0100

an alternative is to set the cookie as a counter that increments each time
the intro loads (overwrites itself) and the flash file skips intro if the
counter is over a set number...

We ran into this on two occasions where the customer wanted to see the intro
more than once, but was unsure of how long they would continue to want to
see it... so we set the cookie as above, and by the time the intro no
longer played, the customer did not notice that it was not there anymore for
them...

I think that a lot of misgivings about auto-skip intro's are that developers
do not want to put in the time making the intro if each person is only going
to view it once... this way, everyone is happy: the customer forgets it was
there after x number of runs, and the developer forgets that the customers
stop seeing it after awhile... also, this allows the developer to change
the intro in the future (for whatever reasons) and simply have the cookie
writer check for a non-zero value to reset back to 1...

HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Hal
Medrano
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:41 PM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: skip intro - advice please


>Marcia,
>
>There are a few ways to avoid the "Loading..." screen. If it's for a
>corporate site,
>there may be some message that they would like to get out to the world. A
>paragraph
>or two of text loads quickly and requires time to read, giving the rest of
>the movie
>time to load. However this can get old if it's a site that people will
>revisit often
>-- y'know how you tune out the safety speech on airplanes.

The way to avoid this is to set a cookie that only loads the intro if the
user has never visited the site before. If the user has already visited,
they'll be shot past the intro and straight to the content.

If you have a long intro, you might want to consider this regardless of
what preloading technique you choose.

Good luck!


--------------------------
Hal Medrano
New Media Group
U S WEST Creative Services

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