Flash Site Design - SWF file size

Author

SWF file size

snurg

2005-08-19, 7:29 pm

Hi I am trying to ascertain what is a maximum file size for homepages
and other pages on Flash sites

Right now, a Flahs site I am developing

http://www.sweetybomb.com

is stalling on Apple Safari browser among others
The homepage is 300kb, which I thought was small,
but I guess needs to be smaller
The website will work at first, but if I refresh the browser
it will cease to work

please advise and if there are other JPEG compression
schemes to squash files sizes, that would be helpful

thanks:confused;

jameslyon

2005-08-19, 7:29 pm

I've had flash apps over 1MB a few times without any problem. Is your project trying to load external movies, graphics? Or are all of the resources included in the swf?

snurg

2005-08-19, 11:15 pm

i should say that my Flash movie with all
th externals is around 15-20 MB
I guess that's too big

and yes, I am using loadMovie for my bitmaps and
SWFs

thanks

snurg

2005-08-19, 11:15 pm

hey, thanks for the tip

yeah, my total size is 15-20MBs
I guess it's time for a SWF diet