[flexcoders] Filesize generated swf's

2005-07-12 Thread Joost Nuijten
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 2

Re: [flexcoders] Filesize generated swf's

2005-07-12 Thread Sjors Pals
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

Re: [flexcoders] Filesize generated swf's

2005-07-12 Thread Darron J. Schall
Joost Nuijten wrote: > 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? > If you're site is comprised of multiple .swf files, consider using Shared Libraries. There's an article expl