I see your point. Loading the thumbnails in a zip is definetly better
than loading them individually..
In my case the thumbnails have to be loaded before the user is able
to interact with the site anyway.
Still, some kind of advanced background loading is what I'm looking
for, but that's probably another thread..
- Rasmus
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Claus Wahlers kirjoitti 30.11.2006 kello 11.47:
Rasmus wrote:
Ok.. But what if you have around 100-200 files, let's say external
JPG's. Wouldn't the zip file become huge?
The reason I'm asking is, I'm making a photographers portfolio
where the idea is to load thumbnails first - then start loading
the high-res pictures in the background. when I need a file ASAP
(..to display it to the user) I just bump it to the top of the
loadQueue..
Or is something like this already built into AS 3?
You MAY have a point there.
Although, browsers usually support two simultaneous HTTP
connections so you could just load the hires image while the
thumbnail zip is still loading. The disadvantage is that the hires
images loads slower (probably at half speed).
However, zipping thumbnails has the big advantage that you save a
lot of overhead. 200 successive GET requests are no fun. Loading a
zip is way faster as you only need to do one request to the server.
And with FZip you have access to files while the zip is still loading.
Cheers,
Claus.
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http://codeazur.com.br/
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