Hank, One thing you have to keep in mind is that Flex 2.0 is tailored to web *applications* instead of to web sites. When a user starts up a typical application, a 8-10 second delay prior to the application to start up is not an unusually long delay for startup. Most Flex apps that I've seen to date are starting up in the 3-5 second range, which I believe is completely acceptable. I'm not saying that people will not use flex to create websites, but I think that a lot of the power that is offered by the platform will not be used, and will potentially bloat the file size of the site (I'm not positive if the flex platform will dynamically remove unused classes, someone have input?).
HTH, Rich Kroll Application Developer ________________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williams Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] app startup / load times 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/
