<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">the browser will make 2 requests for the image...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>if the image is done loading before the flash movie sends the request for it, it should be cached and the user won't have to download it again, but if it's a big image, and it's still loading in the html page when the flash movie sends the request, it will be downloaded twice.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>this behavior might vary from browser to browser, though... </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Michael Ypes wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Charlotte Sans Book LET"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" book="" let""="">Say I got ten images on a page but I want them to display in flash so I get some rollover effect or something but the alternate content is just the image. Will the browser download it the image twice. Once for the alternate content and one from the flash file loading in the image. Not sure how caching and so on would work in this situation. Any ideas as I want to do it but I don’t want to cane my bandwidth or the users…<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Charlotte Sans Book LET"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" book="" let""=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P><FONT size="2" color="black" face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" small="" caps="" let";color:black"="">Cheers<BR> <BR> Michael Ypes <BR> <U1:PERSONNAME u2:st="on">The 3<SUP>rd</SUP> Room</U1:PERSONNAME></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET"><SPAN style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" small="" caps="" let";color:black"=""> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET"><SPAN style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" small="" caps="" let";color:black"=""><BR> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" color="black" face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" small="" caps="" let";color:black"=""><BR> e: <A href="mailto:michael.ypes@the3rdroom.com">michael.ypes@the3rdroom.com</A><BR> w: <A href="http://www.the3rdroom.com/">http://www.the3rdroom.com</A></SPAN></FONT><U><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET"><SPAN style="font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:" charlotte="" sans="" small="" caps="" let";color:black"=""><BR> <BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></U><U><FONT size="2" color="black" face="Charlotte Sans Small Caps LET"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: " charlotte="" sans="" small="" caps="" let";color:black"=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></U></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>