I don't have any specific experience with dialup, but just like developing an HTML page thought has to go into it to ensure that the size doesn't get out of hand.
The minimum size of a Flex app seems to be around 120KB.. The most complicated app I've made which is a shopping cart and checkout is only 270KB (minus videos and images which are loaded at runtime). So that's not bad. And that's in non-production mode with debug code still in place (not sure if production mode on the flex server makes a difference in the file size). And as you say, once the app is loaded the back and forth between the server is under your complete control so if dialup is a design parameter you can make sure the amount of info passed between the client and server is reasonable. Hope that helps. Jason --- In [email protected], "Bob Remeika" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody here have experience with using Flex applications over > dialup? I would assume that the initial load time of the application > would be the killer, but subsequent requests would be more user > friendly and bandwidth friendly than a standard web page. I am > interested to see if anybody has had the chance to see what the user > experience is like on 56K. > > In aaddition to this post... does anybody know what the average file > size of a flex swf is? If most of the content (i.e. jpgs, videos, and > other swfs) are loaded dynmically at run-time, what is the expected > file size of a standard shopping cart? > > Any information would be helpful... we would like to use flex, but we > are worried that some users will have a hard time using our flex > application over a slow connection. > > Thank you, > Bob Remeika -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
