Well...Tinic Uro tells us that it may not mean quite what you think. In fact, depending on your browser and your platform, things can sway -10 to +5 frames/sec from your selected framerate. That means from the Flash 8 default of 15 fps, your movie could be running anywhere from 5 to 20 fps. Tinic gives the technical reasons for this fluctuation. Most of it seems to be throttles built in by browser makers to keep CPU cycles manageable. It makes sense, especially when considering, as Tinic points out, online advertising. But its still frustrating nonetheless when synchronization is important. Like most else with the web, user experience is not always as predictable as we'd like, but at least knowing the problems will help with finding the answers.[via Tinic Uro]
1. Its to bad that things never work because it would make it so much easier for devopers, and better for consumers. But even the best attempts for this, like Java are useless and will never be supported. Some systems are optimized for something, and they work better. If every computer worked they same then non could be better in one thing then the other.
Posted at 3:57PM on May 14th 2006 by Things never work