Have a look at Gaia framework for some ideas.
Previously, I have loaded a sitemap XML and then loaded SWF's for pages
on request.
On another site which had quite a lot of animations and videos, I
implemented an "intelligent" preloader that would look for assets in the
sitemap and load these in the order which I thought was important - i.e.
load stuff for the home page first, then work down the tree. The
preloader was "interruptable" so you could insert a bunch of assets at
the front of the queue if a page was requested before it's assets had
loaded...
I think a balance of loading some assets at start - people don't mind
waiting for a bit of loading, but I think that seeing a loading bar
every time you go to a page might not be much fun in this day and age -
again, I guess that depends on the size of your assets....
I think it's probably dependent on the site - sorry
allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com) wrote:
Hi guys
I'm re-looking at my microsite building engine and rewriting it for MVC but
something is bothering me that i was hoping to get a consensus on.
How do you load your (micro)sites? Do you:
1 load the entire site at the start by loading a single xml file and
trawling it for assets
2 load the entire site at the start by loading a single xml file plus
loading a library file with all of your assets in
3 load each page in using a separate xml file as it's needed
4 load the homepage and start preloading the pages while the user is on the
homepage to cut down wait time for the pages
5 load each view as it's used by the user? So if a link in a page was
clicked that created a popup in flash, flash would load the assets for the
popup when the link was clicked
6 something else?
if you have the time, i'd really appreciate your input
thanks
a
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