A job crossed by desk this week in which one of the things mentioned was ‘knows how to optimize flash files’. This I thought was an interesting requirement as I had never given much thought to particular item. I know from my time at HP that optimization (or lack thereof) is a painful process when waiting for libraries to be sent down the pipe. It appears that this is a pretty big problem and there are tonnes of venders willing so seperate you from your money (Flash Optimize – claims to “reduce SWF files size up to 60-70% without quality loss

for instance). There appear to be some pretty standard tricks about how to produce smaller files from the get go which can be found in an article I found called >Optimizing Flash Lite Content. It should be pretty easier to whip out a source crawler to find any violators of these.