Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/22/06 15:33

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Neredbojias ] on Saturday 22 April 2006 04:25 \__
>
>> To further the education of mankind, "frederick"
>> <frederick@southernskies.co.uk> vouchsafed:
>>
>>> Neredbojias wrote:
>>>> To further the education of mankind, Roy Schestowitz
>>>> <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> vouchsafed:
>>>>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/07/02/screenshots-on-lin
>>>>> ks/
>>>> I wonder if it's a mortal sin to covet thy neighbour's favicon?
>
>
> People seem to hate it actually. I have received complaints (requests for
> removal, desire for a plug-ins that disables such motion). Its effect
> offline (when steering away) can be seen among the bookmarks, which is
> somewhat of a nuisance to most. I simply got used to it, but others have not
> because it stands out too strongly.
>

It is very captivating! Might I suggest slowing down the frame rate a
bit, it might be the whizzing speed of it that bothers some. A little
subtler would captivate the eye without being to distracting because in
the end you want them reading your page not staring at the address bar! ;-)

> Speaking of favicons, last week I realised that Firefox 1.5 makes a
> favicon-like preview/thumbnail for pages that are purely images. Same for
> videos one day? Sounds on MouseHover?
>
>
>>> It is when they're animated!!
>> Then I'm in luck. My neighbours are a sedentary lot (unless you slip a
>> little grain alcohol in their geritol.)
>>
>>> And the arrow-based navigation is... "interesting".
>>>
>>>> Nice page, btw.
>>> {sobs}
>
>
> Thanks for the compliment. *smile* I lost confidence in the odd design of
> that page -- a design that goes back to late 2004.
>
> FWIW, I put up instructions for animated favicons at
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/12/05/animated-favicons/ . I
> worked on this as soon as I had come across the first animated favicon, so I
> might be among the first few thousands(?). It's rare and unusual, so it
> leaves a mental mark, I think.

Your just using an animated GIF, simple yet clever.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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