Hi Ram,
What you have mentioned is not a bug actually. Yes it is true that by default Flex Framework is merged into the code, due to which the SWF size increases, but this is not something that should bother because there is an option for Run Time Shared Libraries(RSL) that will decrease the SWF size. Also as a best practice you should always take the export release build for deployment that will remove the debugging and the profiling code from the SWF which further helps to decrease the SWF size. And if you do the following steps the SWF size for the simple application with just the <mx:Application> tag which you mentioned is 273KB can be decreased to around 65KB. And for the performance it all depends on you that how you have designed your application. In simple terms please go through the best practices before you start coding. Thanks, Naveen Malhotra On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ram Manoj Kongara <k.ramma...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > Just want to bring forth an issue to the notice of the Flex community > at large what I have noticed. > > In simple terms why Flex Framework is not introduced as a plugin/addon > to the browser to be used along with flash player to run a flex > application? > > The minimum size of SWF file created when a simple flex application is > built is 273KB. > (One can consider the flex application file just contains only an > mx:application tag) > > Here each flex based SWF is packaged together with the Flex framework > and other inherent/dependent frameworks by Adobe like for Charts. As a > result it was a redundant piece of data we transfer across the Web > each time our Flex application is accessed by a user on a session > basis. > > In simple terms, packaging the Flex framework together with our > application code in an SWF is creating initial load time of our Flex > application each time. This is creating redundancy in bandwidth usage. > > I logged a bug for the same with Adobe bug and issue management. > > Finally when it comes to business terms 'Performance matters'. > We are midway in our development using Flex to cater to the Enterprise > range of products our Company does business, it was decided to switch > over to Silverlight by Microsoft. > I am not convinced with the decision by our Top Management but finally > has to vote for Performance. > > Microsoft I feel, cannot deliver cutting edge technology like Google > or Adobe because it contains/grows closed box innovators. > > Guess the issue must have been thought out earlier by Adobe but has > sidelined it as not feasible. > > Thanks, > Ram Manoj Kongara. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Flex India Community" group. > To post to this group, send email to flex_in...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > flex_india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<flex_india%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex India Community" group. To post to this group, send email to flex_in...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to flex_india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en.
