I’m doing a site for someone, and the stage size is 650 x 550, embedded in a HTML page. For aesthetic reasons, we’re thinking to increase the height of the fla/swf stage size to 900 or so. (All the “business” part of the swf will take place in the 650 x 550 area, but we want to extend the background image further down on the page, and create a gradient transition from background pattern to white. This will make the swf work better inside the overall web page.)
My concern is about what extra demands this additional stage area might make on viewer’s processors. My assumption (tell me if I’m wrong) is that HTML describes a rectangle and says, inside this rectangle, use this plugin and load this file. Does making a larger Flash stage ask more of the browser and user’s CPU in order to draw and render more rectangle contents?
On smaller monitors, this will cause a portion of the flash file to be offscreen the entire time. are there downsides to that (besides pure inefficiency).
current swf file size is around 70K (due to increase by font embedding).
