Re: FLASH: rough movie part III.

[John Croteau]

Hi Len,


> Is this really reliable/repeatable? Seems like the extremes of very

> slow or fast connections or computers and very small or large flash

> movies would cause this to fail.

> Since the movie is unloaded when we leave the page,

The movie is unloaded from the Flash Environment not browser cache. It

could be deleted if you have a very small cache or visit a lot of pages

before revisiting the Flash page.


> you're relying on the difference in speed between a local read from the

> cache and getting the file off the net.

The speed of the connection makes no difference in whether an If Frame

is Loaded check is made. It checks at one point in time whether or not

the frame to be checked is loaded or not.


> But when I worked at PacBell

> and had a direct hook into a t3, I often found that the net was faster

> than my local hard drive.

This is atypical, very few Web surfers have that fast of a connection to

the Web. The reason for that slower performance could be a slow hard

drive. I know also that the plugin in Netscape checks the server before

loading a file from the local hard drive. I'm not sure if the ActiveX

control does the same thing or not. This rechecking of the hard drive is

why I and others Park movies instead of unloading and reloading the .swf

files when using Load Movie.


> Also, I have been unable to find any evidence of cached .swf's

> when using the ActiveX control under IE 4 and 5.

Generally, all my files using IE4 are cached either in RAM memory or

hard disk cache. I assume the same for IE5, though I haven't checked it.

I check cache often while analyzing Web problems so it is likely I would

notice if files were not cached.



> Or am I missing something?

Apparently.


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