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Subject: Re: FLASH: preload images and swf
From: >>Dustin Krysak<<
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:52:46 +0100

I did want to preload it from a previous page. There is some plain text to
read before the site is entered, so I thought this would be a good time to
preload. That way it should (hopefully) preload without the user even seeing
a preloader.

dustin


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dowdell" <jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: June 29, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: preload images and swf


> At 10:03 AM 6/29/0, ">>Dustin Krysak wrote:
> > Does anyone know if you can preload a swf file with JavaScript? Meaning
> > with the preload images command in dreamweaver.
>
> Sorry, if you'll check into the behavior you'll see it uses the array of
> image objects which modern browsers offer. Because Flash content is
handled
> by the OBJECT or EMBED tag, which do not have a settable SRC attribute as
> the IMG tag, the same JavaScript methods will not work as they do for
> images.
>
> (That said, you can preload it on a previous page. If you're preloading
for
> fast display, then a well-designed SWF will start up quickly anyway and
> then stream... search the Flash technotes with keyword "fast start" for
> more.)
>
> jd
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