Re: MM, wake up!

[John Dowdell]

At 8:35 AM 3/4/98, Dave Smith wrote:

>I thought I would re-post this with a different title, so MM reps and

>designers would be aware of the major hassle cache problem.

>  [snip]

>Wake up MM. This is a dire problem and shackles great designers from

>creating effectively. The problem can be fixed. Its been stated by your

>representatives and has been proved in other companies plug-ins.

>Show me da money!

>I want da qwan!!




>From Jon Gay's post on the prior go-round:


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From: "Jonathan Gay" <jgaymacromedia [dot] com>

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>Dave,

>

>The issue with caching in Netscape is that the browser decides what files to

>cache and what files not to cache. Netscape's strategy is that files over

>64k will not be stored in the cache so that a few large files will not use

>up all of the space in the cache. It turns out that it is possible to force

>Netscape to ignore this rule however, the strategy for doing this is not

>documented by Netscape and we had concerns that using this workaround in

>Flash might cause problems in Netscape. We will try to remove the file size

>limitation on caching in the next version of the Flash plug-in.

>

>Jon

>




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