Not waving but drowning
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Not waving but drowning

While getting my weekly B3ta (NSFW. Don't say I didn't warn you) fix last Friday, this paragraph leapt out at me.
>> Gallery of pre-loaders <<
Much like the banner-ad, the pre-loader absorbs a huge amount of ad agencies' energy without ever getting one ounce of love on the real internet. (You know, the internet that gets views, rather than the waste-ground of client sites.) Celebrate the folly here, or use it to confuse a naive friend, "this site is GREAT once it loads."
http://www.prettyloaded.com/

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Posted by: martinh at 3:48 AM on 27 March 2009
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March 27. 2009 11:26 AM

Jim Boulton

There really is no need to have pre-loaders of any description. Firstly, avoid Flash. Secondly, if you have to use Flash, be smart and use a light initial animation sequence and dynamically load in the heavy assets in the background. Pre-loaders are lazy, even pretty ones.

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