On 9/28/05, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:18:16 -0400, Joseph R. B. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > CSS solution: Put the flash movie into a div, then set the big > > background image you'd use for the movie as the background image on the > > div. Bang! Flash movie much smaller, loads much faster, big image > > cached, everyone's happy. > > Any thoughts? > > Nice, but usually Flash can crush an image down smaller than say > ImageReady/PS. Yes, it adds to the swf, but are you really saving any > download time?
I'd vote YES. While Flash does compress embedded bitmaps, I've always felt it does a shocking job of it. Medium sized files that look like garbage. I'd much rather use a limited palette PNG via CSS than cross my fingers and hope that Flash's JPEG algorithm doesn't destroy my image :) Thanks for the tip Joseph; I'm working on two projects at the moment that would probably benefit from this technique. cheers, Andrew.
