I’m currently working on a photogallery based on the great tutorials and forum posts here. The examples I’ve seen load swfs or jpgs into a main movie and then unload them when a call is made for another image.
I’ve also been looking at some sites by group94 with photogalleries and unless I’m mistaken they seem to be preloading swfs containing single images into a main movie and keeping them there.
e.g
rainerbehrens.com
carldekeyzer.com
I’m using Safari and from its activity window it seems to show that whenever a swf/jpg is reloaded from the browser cache the size of browser cache increases by the size of the file. If I’m not explaining this that well here’s an illustrative example:
a 50kb swf/jpg size is reloaded from browser cache and the size allocated to it becomes 100kb, and for a third time 150kb etc.
I’m attracted to the idea of preloading swfs in the background but wander how large you can go before it starts affecting the average cpu performance.
My question is: Whats worse in terms of cpu usage:
a) increasing the total size in browser cache
or
b) having a large number of image only swfs loaded into a main movie
and if b) how large would you go?
