Pre-fetching Flash
One of the advantages of sIFR is that the Flash files are cached on the client, saving bandwith. Except, of course, when they aren’t cached, as was pointed out on the sIFR forum. Luckily a solution was hinted at by Marc van den Dobbelsteen from Webbforce. Requesting the Flash file using a document.write() call fixes the problem. Thus, I set out on a journey through seemingly endless browser reloads and cache emptying…



