Preloader

A Flash term.

Many Flash movies are very large and take a long time to load.

So rather than make the visitor wait ... and wait... the author creates a small Flash movie that loads very quickly. This small movie calls the main one but meanwhile it shows a progress bar or animation to let the visitor see how much of the main movie has loaded so far.

This small movie is called the 'preloader'

 

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Click on this link: Flash preloaders

 

 

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