Message-ID: <1048094559.3e78a75f76bab@mercury.tarcanfel.net> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:13:31 -0600 From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> Subject: Re: Just one "plug" for Flash
Quoting Bradley Miller <bradmiller@dslonramp.com>:
> A lot of times I see people wanting to talk about efficiency and speed . .
> . let me give you a good example (not mine) that illustrates the point.
> Let's say you have multiple HTML documents, with forms, info, pictures,
> etc.... You want to have the user fill out those forms an submit them.
> With HTML, you are pushing the code to generate each screen of
> information. When they click next, or submit, the user is waiting on a
> page to be shoved back via their dialup or whatever line . . .
Gee, my browser checks to see if the page has changed since it was last
requested, and if not it displays it from cache. That way I don't have to wait
for some stupid movie to download just to view a page of text.
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