Another factor to consider is the client's willingness to pay for bandwidth. (Assuming you have a client.) If they need to keep costs down then you probably should avoid preloading content that the user would need to drill down to, since the user may never see it.
------------------------------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer [email protected] Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 5:35 AM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: [Flashcoders] What is your policy on loading files? > > Hi guys > > I'm re-looking at my microsite building engine and rewriting > it for MVC but something is bothering me that i was hoping to > get a consensus on. > > How do you load your (micro)sites? Do you: > 1 load the entire site at the start by loading a single xml > file and trawling it for assets > 2 load the entire site at the start by loading a single xml > file plus loading a library file with all of your assets in > 3 load each page in using a separate xml file as it's needed > 4 load the homepage and start preloading the pages while the > user is on the homepage to cut down wait time for the pages > 5 load each view as it's used by the user? So if a link in a > page was clicked that created a popup in flash, flash would > load the assets for the popup when the link was clicked > 6 something else? > > if you have the time, i'd really appreciate your input > > thanks > a > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
