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

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

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