Hi, After Sho’s talk at FITC, I’ve been thinking a little more about runtime shared libraries. They are a great idea but the first time someone loads something from a site they have to download each RSL. If they visit different sites that use Flex they will be forced to download much of the same component framework each time. In other words users will be downloading a lot of duplicate code over and over and over again. Each time they do that they will watch the progress bar. Not a good experience.
In a post after MIX 06 Branden Hall mentions that the WPF/E plugin will have a limited set of components baked into the plugin: http://www.waxpraxis.org/article/2/we-finally-see-the-flash-killer-from-microsoft It makes me wonder how MS plans to update those components/containers? But the idea has some merit. Now, let’s say that the Flash 9 (or Flash 10) player could download from Adobe and cache each release of the component framework as an RSL. If there was a compiler setting you could use to tell the compiler: “get version 1.2.2 of the framework from adobe.com” you would be set. When your SWF loaded the player would check its cache to see if it already had the framework 1.2.2 RSL. If not it would get it from Adobe. The next time someone needed that version of the framework. The user wouldn’t have to wait for it to load. Does that make sense? It’s obviously too close to Flex 2’s release to seriously request it version 2.0, but maybe it is reasonable to propose it for a later release? I’m curious if people think a scheme like that is workable and beneficial. My apologies if this has already been discussed or is obviously stupid. Yours truly, -Brian -- ______________________________________________________________________ Brian Lesser Assistant Director, Teaching and Technology Support Computing and Communications Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St. Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 979-5000 ext. 6835 M5B 2K3 Fax: (416) 979-5220 Office: AB48D E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Enter through LB66) Web: http://www.ryerson.ca/~blesser ______________________________________________________________________ -- 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/
