hidden div issue

[btween]

I have a flash movie that's about 9 megs. The movie is nested in a div that has display set to none.

The problem is that when I try to load the page in the browser, it hangs for about 30 seconds when it gets to the html part that contains the hidden div.

If I make the div visible and try to load the page in the browser, the page loads right away and the flash starts playing.

I don't know why this is happening but I think that the page is trying to load the flash into memory completely before it continues loading the rest of the page. Is there a way to make the page load faster, ignoring loading the whole flash. The flash does not need to start loading until the div is made visible by pressing a button on the html page.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Then why have the Flash in the page at all? Why not simply write it to the page after the page has loaded (using either innerHTML or the Macromedia Flash/JS integration kit)?

Hope this helps,
Dan

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[BabyJeffy]

Position the div absolutely and set it's X and Y to be off the screen. If you could code the flash to send a script call to one of your functions, then you could set the position of the div to be display:none and position:relative. Just a thought.

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