Hank, Think of what you are trying to accomplish, and how each fits into your overall business. It seems to me as though you are trying to merge your application with the more marketing related website that sells it. If you look at these two things as distinct entities, it makes much more sense to separate these into separate files with their own source code, progress bars, (potentially) domains, etc. This would reduce the load time for users just coming to check out your software, and have the additional benefit of keeping your source for the app completely separate from the code you use to sell it.
HTH, Rich ________________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williams Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:01 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] app startup / load times On 7/3/06, Richard Kroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hank, > One thing you have to keep in mind is that Flex 2.0 is tailored to web > *applications* instead of to web sites. This is the rub. I am doing an application, but I am debating as to whether to put the intro stuff into a separate flash app so that the "website" part of my stuff can open more quickly. Most applications still need the website-ish stuff to tell the user why they should care and what the app is. Basically I am wondering whether I really need to go through that extra effort of making a separate thing in order to improve startup performance. I *really* dont want to. I am lazy. And flex would allow me to do that intro so much easier. But if the startup time is really annoying to people I dont want to loose potential users because the startup was too slow. Now that flex is mainstream, I am sure lots of people are dealing with or thinking about similar issues so I just wanted to get peoples thoughts. I'm really hoping people will convince me not to worry about it, but I am open to being convinced that I need to do a two stage site. When a user starts up a typical > application, a 8-10 second delay prior to the application to start up is > not an unusually long delay for startup. Most Flex apps that I've seen > to date are starting up in the 3-5 second range, which I believe is > completely acceptable. I agree that 3-5 seconds is totally ok. I have no idea what the real world experience will be for most people and 8-10 seconds was just a guess based on file size and guesses about the low end of average connection speeds. Regards Hank ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- 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/
