Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

[Richmond Mathewson]

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
>> http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/
>>
>> Cripes, I am getting cheesed-off with the
>> ubiquitous Flash.
>
> I don't mind Flash, but splash pages went out with 2002 and that one 
> runs waaaay too long even by 20th century standards.
>
> Jared Spool of UIE offers a simple recipe for evaluating the 
> usefulness of things like intro pages:
> <http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/0103/0136.html>
>
> :)
>
> We use splash screens in desktop apps only because the app needs time 
> to initialize and we need to give the user something attractive to 
> look at until it's ready for work.
>
> I've seen some apps actually delay their boot time so they can display 
> their splash screen longer.  I don't quite understand that; the user 
> didn't boot the app to look at a splash screen, and users don't go to 
> the Ovaltine web site to look at colored blobs dancing around.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
Scotland's "Other Drink" seems to manage really very well
without a dependence on Flash:

http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/