Adobe is putting very serious thought into this problem.
FWIW: 1) Browsers do cache SWFs 2) The cached framework will save your app 130-500K depending on how much of the framework you use 3) Modules is not a workaround. Modularity is a fundamental piece of any large application. HTML sites consist of many html pages. Modules is essentially the same thing 4) Your app should end up being way more than 500K of small module swfs. A large HTML site can easily end up serving about the same as you view many pages. Hopefully you'll serve up fewer modules since the various view states don't need to be different html pages. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dbronk Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is becoming unviable But we shouldn't have to rely on people getting faster and faster connections. To me, that is the same as saying I don't have to worry about poor coding practices that produce inefficient apps because Intel is building faster chips. Adobe needs to put very serious thought into aggressively reducing the size of the SWF files. I'm only into our project about 5%-8% and are already creating 740k swf. I think 500k is too big, by the way. Especially since it needs to download everytime a user comes back. Now if the browser could cache the swf file like it does a graphic, then that would ease my mind a bit. I love flex. It has given me new excitement in my work. But, I agree with the original poster that if Adobe wants flex to become a big player in enterprise apps, they better get this solved quickly. Having the framework cache in the player is a great start, but no where near enough. What is that, about 150k-200k? That puts me still at over 500k and a ton left on the app. My app when done will have 100+ different pages. Modules is another solution, but I see it more as a work around than a fix. For an app the size mine will be, it is probably asking too much to get it down to less than 500k. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 19 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But i think this is good price to pay. > > Exactly. The percentage of people with fast connections is only going to go > up. > > -- > Tom Chiverton. Are you a great Flex programmer, who knows Cairngorm, and has > done some ColdFusion work ? Would you like to work for a top 30 law firm in > Manchester, UK ? Are not an agency ? If yes, send email ! > > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. >
