I have Fiber Broadband and flash sucks for me too. Slow and SLOW. People who
design with it should be castrated. Not kidding, it should be a crime.
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On 6/12/10 4:43 AM, "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A few days ago when Jez invited us to look at
> http://www.nothere.be I clicked onto it and was amazed at how slow it is to
> load. Because it uses Flash.
> I don't understand why people use Flash programming.
>
> I'm on dialup, and my new house has a connection speed at the time of
> these checks of about 33.6 kbps.
> "Broadband" as supplied here is not on fibre-optic cable, but copper cable,
> and for the extra cost one might get anything from 20 to 100 kbps. Not
> worth paying for.
>
> So I decided to run a few checks.
> www.nothere.be took 6 minutes 15 seconds for the first image to appear,
> and
> 25 minutes 10 seconds (4,750.706 bytes) for the first 14 out of ?96 to
> appear. I spent no more time there.
>
> At about the same time Chris Barker invited us to inspect his flower shots.
> Another site using Flash ...
> http://mobile.me/
> 6 minutes 15 seconds until the first image appeared at 650,000 bytes
> at 9 minutes 57 seconds they had all showed up at 2,127,056 bytes.
>
> In contrast my"commercial" site (brianswale.com) which uses only html
> loaded the front page in 3 minutes 23 (706,000 bytes)
> and the next step, the gallery page with lots of thumbnails, in a further 2
> minutes. About five and a half minutes for a lot more graphic content.
>
> One of the Zuiko Solstice sites that I host
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/solstice/2004/2004.htm now 6 years
> old with an image on the initial main page and 31 thumbnails
> took 6 minutes to load them all - 1.3 MB data
>
> Incidentally, the quality of those images is amazingly good by todays digital
> standards.
>
> For people on fibre-optic broadband, these differences are probably trivial; I
> can't tell. But for me they may make the difference between me looking, or
> not looking.
>
> Brian Swale.
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