Loading logic - best practices?

[Burndog (Steve)]

@jonathan

• All the animation data (scenes, elements, timelines, keyframes, symbols, etc.) and the Hype runtime is loaded before anything else happens. If you have a lot of scenes with animations, this will add initial load weight but then there’s no penalty after that.
• Images and audio marked as Preload in the Resource Library will be loaded before any scenes are shown.

Thanks for the reply but this confuses me.
If "All the animation data and Hype Runtime is loaded before anything happens" how does preloading come into play as it seems waiting for all content negates any opportunity for "Preload".

I've done some further research and believe the idea behind preloading is to preload assets into browser cache in advance of accessing an entirely different Hype document/presentation.

But even that does not seem to present an advantage unless you are separately requesting the files to preload based on a timeline or javascript event. In other words, post/after primary animation loading.