Posted by Ed Mullen on 04/23/06 03:06

frederick wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>> It's interesting, at least from an academic standpoint. Not sure that
>> I'd employ it on my site.
>
> My initial thought process quickly went something along these lines:
> 1. Oh, that's clever/different!
> 2. Must be an animated GIF.
> 3. I wonder if he's linked to a GIF file proper or has found some way
> to hack an ICO?
> 4. Was that a stupid question?
> 5. I could see this thing starting to get annoying after a short
> period of time.
> 6. This is starting to get on my nerves.
> 7. Make it stop!!
>
> It really is horribly distracting in Firefox, since it's still chugging
> along in your peripheral vision even when another tab is being used.
>
>
> Nothing wrong with having it up as a proof-of-concept, though!
>

LOL. Yeah, the whole peripheral vision thing got to me. The more I
tried to ignore it ... etc. Still, isn't it like anything else in this
milieu? We get averse to newness, carp about change, then see the
technique evolve and go: "Hey! Not bad! Pretty cool! Can't complain!"
(with apologies to John Prine) "... actually, everything is just about
the same." ref: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/john-prine/74744.html

And here's the good news: it's a 16 x 16 graphic. Imagine, if you will,
if it would scale up to, say, 640 x 640!!! OMIGOD! Uh, digital cameras,
no inhibitions, ... etc. Ooooo! Yeah, thank God, "... actually,
everything is just about the same." ;-)

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to
put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. - Mahatma Gandhi

[Back to original message]