Remember, about 7-8 years back, during the bubble, when flash became the coolest tool to build websites? Every self-respecting company, at that time, wanted a flash intro for its web site, with elaborate animations and music. When visiting a site, first you had to watch the movie, otherwise you weren't able entering the site. After a while this thing started irritating more and more people and as a result the 'skip intro' buttons started appearing as an escape route for those not in the mood of watching the movie. Today, one hardly sees any of those intros, probably because companies have realized that they are more of nuisances than attractions. I have the feeling that transparency will meet with the same fate as the flash intro. Now, it is cool and fun but it has plenty of drawbacks. Disregarding their resource hungriness, they diminish text legibility and in general make the desktop look more chaotic and disorganized as really is. Probably, during the course of time the effect will find its way into the general scheme of things, whatever it might turn out to be. Similarly to the flash that ultimately ended up as a web advertising tool. Anyhow, this is just my 2 c.
J. Mak -- http://jozmak.googlepages.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
