It will only get cached when served over http: FBB serves it via the file system
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dbronk Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is becoming unviable Well, in the AJAX apps I've written, even the first downloads were rarely more than 200k, normal < 150k. After that, every request was around 2k-10k. But again, I think this is comparing apples and oranges, there are pluses and minuses for both. I personally think that Flex is the way to go. I just wanted to put my 2 cents in with my opinion that I believe this is one of the top 3 issues that they need to fix. Search engine optimization is another big one as well as well as putting development features into FlexBuilder that developers have come to expect as basic features. But, I didn't want to make this an AJAX vs Flex so sorry I brought it up. In one of the reply posts it was stated that the browser can cache the SWF. How is this done? I take a server hit every time I come back to my app. I can be in my app, jump over to google, come back to my app all in the same browser session and it will reload from server every time. It would help tremendously if you could advise me on how to make the SWF cache in the browser. Thanks, Dale --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dbronk wrote: > > > > So how do I make my browser cache the swf? Every time I navigate to > > my app, the swf loads from the server. > > > > As far as comparing html sites with using modules, I think it is very > > tough to compare such different techologies. But, with the modules I > > have to wait for another xK bytes module to load which means not a > > smooth transition. If I was simply doing an html site, we would never > > go back to the server for such large chunks of data. Using AJAX I > > would be able to grab much smaller amounts of data > > How is that different than a Flex app? How does the size of a Flex > swf compare to the initial download of an AJAX one? > > I thought this was one of the selling points of RIAs, either with Flex > or AJAX was that after the initial download, you end up using less > bandwidth. Download the application once, and then just pass data back > and forth. > > I know that my Blockbuster on-line queue is unusable with 250 movies > in it. But, I've built similar type functionality into Flex apps and > it is pretty snappy. > > > -- > Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur, Software Developer, Author, > Recording Engineer > AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 > -- > My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com <http://www.dot-com-it.com> > > My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com <http://www.theflexshow.com> > > My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com <http://www.jeffryhouser.com> > >
