Keep in mind that a lot of usability tests where written in a time that everybody used a 56k modem. Nowadays people take 500k in less then 4 seconds from the web. Maybe its time to reconsider this 150kb limit.
Greets Sjors Joost Nuijten wrote: > Hi, > > We are working on a Flex-based website. We've discovered that the > generated > SWF's are at least 400Kb. This is too large. According to usability > rules a > webpage should exceed 150Kb per page. > > We created an empty mxml-template (containing only a > mx:application-tag) and > the filesize was still 263Kb. Does anybody have an idea how to reduce the > filesize? > > One thing that will help is to remove all the @embed-codes and load images > at runtime. But that's not enough to get the filesize down to 150Kb. > > Regards, > Joost Nuijten > > > > > > -- > 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 > > * Visit your group "flexcoders > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders>" on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- 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/