> > Nice, but long before it would have finished, I would have clicked on
> > one of the menu items and been gone from that page. It is too slow
> Yeah, I noted in my own post that I realize this page loads too slowly; it's
> one of those cases where I like the effect so much that I'm reluctant to
> dispense with it, download times be damned :)
Yes, it is a hard choice.
> But just from a sense of personal professionalism I'd like to figure out a
> way to maintain the quality of the effect while significantly speeding it up;
> as I noted, I'm working on it :)
I think the answer is staging the fetch for the reflection image till
after the Java is fully operational. I'd be tempted to delay the main
image too, since not all of the mouse-overs work till the images are
finished. It gives one the impression that the other menu options are
disabled.
> As to where the clock was made: dunno. The building was designed by
> the same architect who created some of Canada's Parliament Buildings,
> back around 1875 or so, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if special items
> such as the clock itself were commissioned down in the US somewhere.
Probably buy a guy named Seth Thomas in my old home town. He and his
company made a lot of clocks in those days, and those old Yankee Peddlers
wandered rather far. The family sold out in the late 1960's or 1970's, I
think, and the new buyers eventually moved it to the Carolina's. But
before the advent of digital clocks, our part of Connecticut had most of
the clock and watch factories, and the brass mills needed to support them,
in North America. And out of that, came a lot of the bearing industries so
vital in World War II. Aircraft industries like Pratt and Whitney and
Sikorsky too, and the submarine base as well. Much of that moved south in
the seventies and eighties.
We were once the equivalent of Silicon Valley... long ago. Funny
how folks don't keep up with new technologies. Railroads were replaced by
airlines, and mechanical clock companies were replaced by electronics
companies like Texas Instruments. I do wonder what silicon technology
will be replaced by...
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