An empty Application tag should come in at about 128Kb. Not sure why you got 263Kb. You sure you didn't have any custom theme attributes on the application tag?
At any rate, starting from 128K, you'll hit your 150K limit really quick. However, I encourage you to consider the following: 1) Broadband is here. The main reason for a 150K limit is download time. More and more people are accessing your site over fast connections where 150K only represents 1/2 second or less 2) Flex/Flash is streaming media. The user will see the download progress bar, which you can customize, very quickly, long before the app has been fully downloaded over slow links, so you can present something to the user faster than you could trying to get one 150K HTML page parsed and rendered 3) Flex is not page-oriented. Thus once you get the SWF downloaded you don't have to go back to the server for the next screen full, it is already there. This is often much better than having to make the user wait as you go get the next 150Kb HTML page, and the one after that. Flex is a new paradigm. It will require you to think a little differently and design your apps differently, but you will probably find that there's a payback in terms of usability and productivity on the part of your users that is not achievable in the HTML paradigm. -Alex --- In [email protected], "Joost Nuijten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are working on a Flex-based website. We've discovered that the generated > SWF's are at least 400Kb. This is too large. According to usability rules a > webpage should exceed 150Kb per page. > > We created an empty mxml-template (containing only a mx:application- tag) and > the filesize was still 263Kb. Does anybody have an idea how to reduce the > filesize? > > One thing that will help is to remove all the @embed-codes and load images > at runtime. But that's not enough to get the filesize down to 150Kb. > > Regards, > Joost Nuijten -- 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/
