Total and utter Coolness. I think you can delay the start of the animation a tad, say ~.5 or 1 second. Let the folks get accustomed to what they are seeing. Perhaps make sure the background and such of the 'night' are the starting point (i.e. not setting them with js, but directly in the css), this will mitigate the transitions, and add extra time to the animation.
Stats for the site: firefox: 67% (2.0.0.11 : 35%, 2.0.0.9: 32%, 2.0.0.10 : 15%, 2.0.0.8 : 6%, 2.0.0.6 : 3%, etc.) ie: 23% (6.0 : 57%, 7.0: 43%, 5.5: 0.18%, 4.01 : 0.04%) opera: 4% (9.23 : 33%, 9.24: 31%, 9.50 9%, 9.22: 8%, 9.21: 4%) Safari : 4% (523.10 : 53%, 523.12: 26%, 419.3: 9%, 523.12.9: 6.8%) Mozilla: 1% Camino: 0.3% Konqueror: 0.3% So I think you can safely skip IE 5.5 compatibility. Screen resolutions: 1280x1024 : 33% 1024x768: 19% 1280x800: 11% 1680x1050: 10% 1440x900 7% 1600x1200 5% 1400x1050 5% 1920x1200 4% 1152x864 2% 1280x768 1% 1280x960 1% 800x600 0.59% Martijn On Dec 16, 2007 2:47 PM, WalkerP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've currently got a mostly working version of the page that I've tested > on: > Safari 3 (which is where it looks best due to support of the 'text-shadow' > CSS property & rounded corners) > Firefox 2.0.0.11 & IE7 (both look the same) > IE6 & IE 5.5 (It failed these tests, as neither browers supports > 'max-width' > or alpha transparent PNGs - but both issues should be easily fixable with > a > little JS.) > > As yet, I haven't been able to see what it looks like in Firefox 1.5, > Opera, > or Safari 2, so if anyone has access to these apps, please take a screen > shot… > > The site is useable with or without javascript enabled (the only > difference > is that there's no animation without JS), and at resolutions from 800x600 > up > (though it looks better on 1024x768+ - more white space) > > I've uploaded the page here: http://wicket.awardspace.com/ (the hosting's > pretty bad, but hey, it's free) and I've attached a zip of screenshots of > the page with different browsers > http://www.nabble.com/file/p14361677/Wicket%2BScreenshots.zip > Wicket+Screenshots.zip As you may notice, Safari's menu looks markedly > better than other browsers' (esp. IE). Currently, I'm not entirely sure > how > the menus should be organised (help?) - but once the menu structure itself > finalised, I'll be able to make them look just as good on the other > browsers. For now, it's using scarcely-supported CSS3 to do the rounded > borders and drop shadows. > > And, just now - after uploading the site I realised something I hadn't > remembered to consider before - currently the page loads & displays in its > entirety, then it animates. Not particularly appealing. That's easily > fixable (I just need to move the JS that draws the navy cover over the > page > higher up in the code, and have it run before the DOM is fully downloaded, > - > then have the animation run when the download's finished.) > > To-Do: > Make Page work with IE 6 (and maybe 5.5) > Shrink page & resources size > Improve & finalise Menu Structure > Re-style menus so they look better cross-browser > Various Minor Tweaks > Whenever > > http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-asf/issues/detail?id=51 > Issue 51 is resolved, put it's result into the page > Anything I've forgotten? > > > > > > Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > > > Again, I'm not going to maintain the swf file: I don't know the format, > > nor > > have I any intention to learn it. So for me the format is off limits. I > > also > > think that in the advent of adblock and other plugin blockers the format > > is > > flawed for a entry point of any website. > > > > I really do like the rising sun idea. This has to stay :) > > But the coffee cup is way off: got to get that thing out of your head. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/-GHOP--Issue-14---Created-an-Animated-Launch-Page-for-Site-tp14237894p14361677.html > Sent from the Wicket - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst Apache Wicket 1.3.0-rc1 is released Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-rc1/
