Document Complete and Fully Loaded

[melB]

Hi @ll!

I have a question:
We have a site with flash objects. One week ago, I saw, that the Document Complete time was in 14,538 sec. Fully Loaded was in 33,361 sec. In the waterfall diagramm I saw that the requests from the flash objects where made after the document completes. Now we removed one flash element.
Now the Document complete time and the fully loaded time are nearly the same. In the diagramm I can see, that the requests made from the remaining flash objet were made before the document completes.
So how can that be?

For me, the correct understanding of the document complete time is, when the html-Document and all embedded requests were done? Is that correct?
So why does the loading sequence changes?

Thanks for any help!

melB