Optomize for Mac and PC

programming flash
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Hello

Im in the process of creating a full flash website. Im running into a bit of trouble with optomizing the page for mac and pc. My animations run smooth on my home computer (pc) but while at school it loads slow and animates poorly on their macs (g4). Im also running into some trouble with my preloader actually preloading in safari, it just waits till its loaded and then skips it all together.

I know that there is a way to optomize flash files for macs… something like

www.sixstation.com

while loading the pc version of the site on a mac its slow, but the mac version runs fine.
any ideas on some stuff i could do to get my movie running better, and platform specific optomization that would reason for him creating two versions?

thanks

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You know I’m having the same problem with this site I’m working on right now. On my PC all of the animations run smoothly but on a mac they seem to lag. the address is:


only book five works right now but you get the idea. Does anyone know why this would happen? or how to fix it.

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They run smooth here… unless you mean slowly. The photos do load in slow (how big are they?). But the fades are smooth.

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posix, i smell SOTW

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hehe…

www.sixstation.com isnt my website

i was just asking why he has a mac and pc version that you can choose from. and what hes done in each to optimize it for that platform.

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I think what sixstation was trying to overcome by having a mac version and pc version of their website the flash transparancy issue on macs. On the PC version they have that textured background but on the mac version they don’t. This is because older versions of IE on a mac can’t understand the transparency code that flash used when it publishes with a transparent background. They have since fixed this problem with IE6. I think thats the only reason why there are two versions. I would still like to know why Flash animations run slower on a mac than on a PC though.

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thanks bcrabtree

yea i noticed the same thing, but was wondering if there was more to it than that. but thanks for your input, now my brain can rest.

as far as flash just running slower on macs, i think its just an optomization issue that hasnt been worked on enough to get it right for osx yet.