Flash header for a site I'm working on...

[cfire]

I think it's about 90k as is but I'll recompress the sounds and bring that down some. I checked on 3 different machines, a G5, my desktop PC and my laptop??? Anyone else have it load slow?

[MartinLee]

sorry my bad. editted post above

[cfire]

Cool, that was really puzzling me. I've never heard of a Gecko bowser, is it fairly new or am I reallly losing touch? Thanks for checking Martin.

[kiwicolin]

It was fast for me - I dont think a preloader on a banner is a good idea

[MartinLee]

Gecko Browsers: mozilla, Firefox, Camino etc.

gecko is a rendering engine. it has trouble with flash on a Mac

[cfire]

Ah, I've never heard that term before, thanks.

Colin~Good point.

[MartinLee]

Yeah i agree, preloaders on headers should be avoided. obviously unless its a massive file, which yours isnt.
I keep forgeting that Gecko hates flash. sorry for the alarm

[mkeefe]

lol Gecko in general hates Flash, not just on the Mac. Take it from a developer of Flash Applications. lol I have more issues with Firefox on the PC or Mac and Netscape is just bad.

[fotodog]

Hey Frank!
I love the concept!
the green light works nice. the blurring on the tire background is perfect and is the tunnel (lights are frickin awesome man!)

No preloader! I agree with Colin. You don't want a preloader. If necessary load in movies at different intervals. I'm on dialup and Safari and it was almost instantaneous. One wierd thing tho, when it loaded I got a gray background with 4 white boxes for a second before the tire began.

I like a border personally. fix the bevel and you're there!

nice work, my friend!

[cfire]

Thanks Greg, I appreciate that!

Greg, the gray bg with the white squares was (supposed to be) a road. It's only on the home page but I think I'm gonna lose it after looking at it with fresh eyes, thanks.

[Edited on 2/26/2005 by cfire]