I definitely agree with you Gabriel, you wouldn't catch me doing a non-Flex Flash project at all- I was under the impression the OP was *very* concerned about size, although that could just've been my (often lax) comprehension skills :)
-Josh On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:38 PM, gabriel montagné <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:36 PM, devenhariyani wrote: > > Thanks for the advice so far. If I follow the advice not to use the > > <Application> tag, *and* if I also remove all the MXML and re- write the > app > > to use only ActionScript do you think I can get the size down to under > > 200KB? I think Flex is a great technology, but if its not the right tool > for > > the job I will sadly have to go to Flash. > > I'm primarily a Flex developer and, of course it depends on what you want > to > do, but I wouldn't go for a "pure AS3" project unless it was a simple > banner. > 200KB is too little. A normal medium size flickr image already weights > about > 100KB. > > Even though widgets might use little area, they are often complete websites > upon themselves. I did a facebook widget for Target not long ago. It was > a > simple widget but still it had to load data from different sources, it had > to > do reporting, it had to forward requests for products, it had a carousel > with > details info and additional images, etc... and of course, it had to do the > normal things that all of these flash movies have to do: it had to load > smoothly, it had instantiate it's components, it had to load and cache > stuff, > it had to have embedded fonts and assets, load backgrounds, etc. And it > had > to be ready in a very short time. > > All these things Flex solves already for you... you can redo them and > perhaps > save some bandwidth, but the cost is high: you'll loose all the > architecture > and debugging that the Adobe engineers (not to mention the Flex community > in > general) have already put into the framework, (which is made, of course, > from > the very same kind of actionscript that you would have to write yourself > anyways to solve the very same problems.) > > I did that widget in full fledged Flex (+ Cairngorm + UM Extensions, etc.), > it > ended up "costing" like 350KB... and nobody complained, specially since we > could cut down one third of the initially scoped development time and it > turned out to be robust and pretty much bug free. > > -- > gabriel montagné láscaris comneno > http://rojored.com > t/506.8367.6794 > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [email protected] :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
