Hi Hank I think people will wait. Once it's loaded it can be cached. Ted once wrote a blog about RSL that achieved this.
While people are thinking about do i wait for it to load or not, by the time it does you got em. That's my opinion. regards, Bjorn Schultheiss --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "hank williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the first time since I started playing with flex (a couple of > weeks) I checked out the size of my app, which is currently 477k. > > My app isnt that big, so I presume most of that is just the size of > the framework. I am just wondering what do people think about that in > terms of user start up time. For a user with a 500kbps connection that > is about 8 seconds before the app is loaded. Are people doing loaders > to get things started? is there an accepted strategy for how to deal > with this? > > There was another thread recently about how people shouldnt use flex > for websites and one person provided aesthetic reasons. In my mind, if > there is a reason (and I am not arguing that there is) but if there is > a reason not to use it for websites it would be the file size. 10 > seconds seems like a long time to make someone wait before they see > something. On the other hand perhaps I am underestimating the average > connection speed. > > Anyway, like I said I would just like to get peoples thoughts on this issue. > > Hank > -- 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/
