enable HTTP compression on the proxy. Compare the amount of bandwidth
needed to what you think it would take with Flash. You will then learn
what the pron industry already knows; HTTP compression pretty much
eliminates the bandwidth issue.
Now there are plenty of other reasons to use Flash over HTML, but
bandwidth shouldn't be one of them.
-Matt
On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:44 PM, Stacy Young wrote:
> Here's a simplified case I made in a recent meeting:
>
> 1)������Goto Amazon.com, browse through their system and go through
> the
> purchase process. Each time measure the file size of the HTTP document
> and any images that are pulled down on the request.
>
> 2)������Compare that against the flex store example (ok not 100% fair
> considering it doesn't do as much as Amazon)
>
> Point being is that after the initial download...all future
> communication is via service calls...and with each request (in
> comparison to HTTP version) the total bytes used by the flex app are
> lower than the overall browser experience.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Stace
>
> ��_____��
>
> From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:31 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Flex again!
>
> I've been doing some research into Flex recently and one of the things
> that has put me off of it is that it seems to not be a viable option
> for
> non-broadband users.��From the swf's in my cache, it seems the
> smallest
> size is 100K and 150K isn't too uncommon for the sample apps on
> Macromedia.com.��I know that some of my very involved DHTML apps that
> use common libraries may be getting close to that size, but at least
> with _javascript_, it can be cached.��Maybe this is why is seems that
> Macromedia is targeting the big enterprise guys instead of the common
> developers.��
>
> I was thinking that it would be nice if the next version of the flash
> player would have the base classes built in, but that would probably
> make the player download quite large.
>
> --
>
> Marlon Moyer, Sr. Internet Developer
>
> American Contractors Insurance Group
>
> phone: 972.687.9445
>
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>
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>
> www.acig.com
>
> ��_____
>
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