July 31, 2003
Flash takes an XML nap
It appears that when you load XML into Flash, it freezes everything up until it has finished with the XML. Animation stops. Intervals stop. All code execution stops. The computer even has trouble doing OTHER unrelated tasks until this freeze is over.
Big XML files can make the user stare at the screen for quite a while wondering why nothing is responding. I guess the answer is to either chop the XML into multiple smaller files, or if the XML file doesn't change much, you could compile it into a SWF of its own and load that instead.
Argggg.
Posted by andy at July 31, 2003 01:43 PMComments
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