Re: virus: banner ad prototype
Marie Foster (mlfoster@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:36:43 -0800
David McFadzean wrote:
>
> At 02:36 PM 12/31/97 -0800, Marie Foster wrote:
>
> >I like the animations. However, on my dial up notebook, with a 33 modem
> >they took a looooonnnngggg time to load. On the fractional T1 at work
> >it was not the same wait, but still took some time. IMHO, graphics and
> >the internet are not fully ready for prime time. Any way to speed up
> >the load?
>
> Yes, the Bio/Ideohazard morph uses 50 frames for smooth animation. I
> could cut down the number of frames at the expense of make it look
> more jerky, or go with a static Ideohazard which is less than 3k.
>
> The banner ad itself will be redone in Macromedia Flash instead of
> an animated GIF. That should reduce the size to a few K rather than
> a hundred K.
>
> --
> David McFadzean david@lucifer.com
> Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/
> Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/
That would be excellent. JAVA would work too. Is flash built into most
newer browsers or would you have to pass them through to a download
site. I know that freaks some out. I do not believe how paranoid some
folk are.
Marie