Re: Cool Technique---Comet Cursor

Also, if I may add my two cents, in my view, the cursor trail trick is akin=
=20
to the blink tag or marquee tag on steroids... I mean it is interesting for=
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about 3 seconds then it just gets positively distracting and extremely=20
annoying.  It's just plain tacky to me and I avoid it like the=20
plague.  Just because a trick looks "cool" doesn't mean that it is.  The=20
real question is, does it add anything to the user's experience? Does it=20
help them navigate the site or bring anything useful to them?  For me it's=
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no to both questions and I don't use it.  To each his/her own I guess.

Although I didn't create the page, I find that the following expresses my=20
own feelings on a lot of related issues:

http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/dontdoit.htm

Cheers!

St=E9phane Bergeron


At 02:51 PM 27/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/27/00 12:06:28 PM Central Daylight Time,
>dlapcewich(at)intira.com writes:
>
><< If you go to their website and *read* the fine print, i.e., their=
 privacy
>  policy, you will find they collect this information.  The language is
>  carefully crafted to say they do not collect "personal information" but
>  OTOH, it appears they do.  It is all in their definition of "personal
>  information."
>
>  Also, the current version only works with IE.  It does not work with
>  Netscape.   Funny about that! :)
>   >>
>thanks, Dennis.
>
>~~Lanice~~

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